Introduction: The stately homes and England -- Prelude: Houses of taste (to 1815) -- 1. The Victorian idea of heritage -- 2. Hosts and guests: the opening of the country house -- 3. Philistines, ...

Mandler%E2%80%94whose volume The English National Character was a study of a nation from within%E2%80%94here examines Margaret Mead, who is notable for making a ...

The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair by Peter Mandler 320pp, Yale, £19.99 Here's a little quiz for you. You're a recently arrived immigrant from ...

Noel Malcolm reviews The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair by Peter Mandler Of course we all know that there's no such thing as 'national character'.

As I was brought up in Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s, I think I can claim to have started out knowing with some certainty exactly what comprised the "English character". The English were, to use the ...

Philip Dodd talks to the TV and film producer Tony Garnett, the geneticist Steve Jones about the Bible and the anthropologist Kit Davies and Peter Mandler about Margaret Mead. Show more Philip Dodd ...

The problem the 20th century had with Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help was that the conjunction of ‘self’ and ‘help’ sounded too much like the opposite of the welfare state. Smiles’s creed, it was assumed, ...