Robert Colls is Professor of Cultural History at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Philip Dodd is an author, curator, BBC broadcaster, chairman of Made in China UK and Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London, UK.

Introduction
Englishness and the National Culture Philip Dodd (University of the Arts, London, UK)
Englishness and the Political Culture Robert Colls (De Montfort University, UK)
The Discovery of Rural England Alun Howkins (University of Sussex, UK)
The Invention of English Brian Doyle (1943-1997), author of English and Englishness (1989)
A Literature for England Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham, UK) and Peter Widdowson (formerly University of Gloucestershire, UK)
The Identity of English Music: The Reception of Elgar 1898-1935 Jeremy Crump (De Montfort University, UK)
The Englishwoman Alice Mackay (independent scholar, UK) and Pat Thane (King's College, London, UK)
The Marginal Britons: The Irish D George Boyce (University of Swansea, UK)
Englishness and the Liberal Inheritance After 1886 Dennis Smith (University of Loughborough, UK)
The Conservative Party and Patriotism Hugh Cunningham (University of Kent, UK)
Socialism, the State and Some Oppositional Englishness Stephen Yeo (formerly University of Oxford, UK)
Afterword
Index