Myths of the English / edited by Roy Porter.

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers [Distributor], 1992.

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Copy 1. Editor's dedication written on half title page: "To mum love from Roy".

Gilbert and Sullivan: The making and un-making of a British 'tradition' / David Cannadine -- Speaking with double tongue: Mother Goose and the old wives' tale / Marina Warner -- The fifth of November remembered / David Cressy -- The tramp / M.A. Crowther -- The English Bobby: An indulgent tradition / Clive Emsley -- Name upon name: The Great War and Remembrance / Bob Bushaway -- Discretion, sobriety and wisdom: The teacher in children's books / Margaret Kinnell -- Authority in the university: Balliol, Newnham and the new mythology / Reba N. Soffer -- The gentleman and the hero: Wellington and Napoleon in the nineteenth century / Iain Pears -- Britishness and portraiture / Gertrude Prescott Nuding.

Includes bibliographical references and index.