Orientation+Reading

**Required Reading**
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**Newspaper Article**

 * Daily Telegraph (national newspaper): leader article written in aftermath of planned and perpetrated terrorist attacks in Britain, 27 July 2005 []
 * The Guardian (national newspaper): article considering English and British identities in the context of the 2010 football World Cup, 28 June 2010 []

**Political Comment**

 * Prime Minister Gordon Brown: speech on ‘Britishness’, January 2006: BBC report and video []

**Academic Analysis**

 * Krishan. Kumar, ‘English or British? The Question of English National Identity’, [|//The Making of English National Identity//] (Cambridge University Press, 2003), chapter 1 []

**Context and History**

 * 'The Making of the United Kingdom', //[|Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship]// (The Stationery Office, Crown Copyright 2007), Chapter 1 Excerpt reproduced with permission (pdf[[image:http://www.harlaxton.ac.uk/assets/images/utility/acrobat.gif width="15" height="15" align="absMiddle" caption="PDF Document"]]551kb)
 * [|The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England] A fun 5 min 15 sec. webcast discussing the different elements that make up Britain, England, the U.K. and the Commonwealth.

**Other Sources**

 * Guardian (national newspaper) editorial, January 2007 []
 * Report on speech by Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, 30 April 2007 []
 * Daily Telegraph (national newspaper), comment, December 2008 []
 * Observer (Sunday newspaper), article considering ‘Englishness’ in the city of Badford in the context of J.B. Priestly’s //English Journey//, 5 July 2009 []. This book is in Harlaxton College Library shelved at 914.2 PRI.
 * British Citizenship test (unofficial) []

LD, Harlaxton College Library, 05/12/2011 library@harlaxton.ac.uk