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Centre for English Identity and Politics

Lectures and talks

From this page you can access transcripts of lectures and talks hosted by the Centre for English Identity and Politics, including presentations by Tristram Hunt, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Heffer and Tariq Modood. 

The Centre was first hosted by the University of Winchester and much of this material was delivered at lectures or seminars held there.

Below are transcripts of lectures and seminar contributions given at the Centre.

Guy Shrubsole Who owns England?

28 November 2018

Researcher and author

Jim Baker YOLO. (You Only Live Once): Black English, Who's Shaping Whose Identity?

20 September 2018

Independent researcher and consultant

John Denham Stories of England

28 March 2018

University of Southampton

Don John Stories of England

28 March 2018

Race equality consultant 

Robin Mann Stories of England

28 March 2018

Bangor University

David McCrone Stories of England

28 March 2018

Edinburgh University 

Lisa Mckenzie Stories of England

28 March 2018

LSE

Sivamohan Valluvan Stories of England

28 March 2018

Warwick University

Craig Prescott The Constitutional and Political Consequences of a Divided Referendum Result

May 2017

Winchester University

Liam Byrne An Englishness open to all

31 March 2017

Labour MP 

David Goodhart An Englishness open to all

31 March 2017

Author and journalist

Sunder Katwala An Englishness open to all

31 March 2017

Director, British Future

Tariq Madood An Englishness open to all

31 March 2017

Bristol University

Nasar Meer An Englishness open to all

31 March 2017

Edinburgh University

Richard Webber An Englishness open to all

31 March 2017

Director, WebberPhillips

Simon Heffer Five Hundred Years of Englishness

28 February 2017

Author and journalist

Trevor Phillips An English Future: E Pluribus Unum or Ex Una Multa?

18 October 2016

Former Chair, EHRC 

Judith Clementson England and the EU

12 March 2016

Hampshire independent councillor 

Montserrat Guibernau England and the EU

12 March 2016

Cambridge University 

Richard Wyn-Jones England and the EU

12 March 2016

Cardiff University 

Paul Goodman English issues in the 2015 general election

18 January 2016

Editor, Conservative Home 

Miranda Green English issues in the 2015 general election

18 January 2016

Journalist, former advisor to Paddy Ashdown

Eric Kaufman English issues in the 2015 general election

18 January 2016

Birkbeck University

Gerry Stoker English issues in the 2015 general election

18 January 2016

University of Southampton

Gerald Vernon-Jackson English issues in the 2015 general election

18 January 2016

Leader, Portsmouth City Council

Robert Tombs England’s Past and England’s Future

23 November 2015

Cambridge University

Richard Leese Labour and England

21 October 2015

Leader, Manchester City Council

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