Felipe Fernández-Armesto

is author of Civilisations (Macmillan) and teaches history at Oxford University, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.

 

Articles

Strangers know us best

Why are the British so careless with "Britishness"?

The careless British pose a greater threat to Britishness than any number of willing migrants to their shores.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto argues that Britishness is threatened not through migrants but through Britons themselves. He claims that Britain has become ‘foreign’ to its former self – but that this has other causes than the effects of immigration.

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