David Matless

England and 'Englishness' have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have been imagined since the 1960s, covering themes including politics, popular culture, geography, art, architecture, film, and music. David Matless navigates the country's complex cultural terrain, revealing the ways in which the national is entangled with the...

England's Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s. David Matless covers themes including agriculture, nature, leisure, climate change, the Anthropocene, the folkloric, the archaeological, and the mystical. He also shows how national environmental affairs connect to the local, the regional, the global, and the postcolonial. Moving across a breadth of source material...