Linda Colley Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. September 13, 1949
Birthday: September 13
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.
topic: Thinking, Islands, Scotland, National Identity, Periphery, Great Britain, British History, Britons
