Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History

Part I. Methodology

1. A New Plea for an Old Subject? Four Nations History for the Modern Period
Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Margaret M. Scull

2. J.G.A. Pocock and the Politics of British History
Ian McBride

3. ‘A Vertiginous Sense of Impending Loss’: Four Nations History and the Problem of Narrative
Paul O’Leary

Part II. Practice

4. The Eighteenth-Century Fiscal-Military State: A Four Nations Perspective
Patrick Walsh

5. The Scottish Enlightenment and the British-Irish Union of 1801
James Stafford

6. Celticism and the Four Nations in the Long Nineteenth Century
Ian B. Stewart

7. The Beefeaters at the Tower of London, 1826–1914: Icons of Englishness or Britishness?
Paul Ward

8. Regional Societies and the Migrant Edwardian Royal Dockyard Worker: Locality, Nation and Empire
Melanie Bassett

9. Four Nations Poverty, 1870–1914: The View from the Centre to the Margins
Oliver Betts

10. Wales and Socialism, 1880–1914: Towards a Four Nations Analysis
Martin Wright

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, Modern History, Political History