Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart
periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and
ethnicity in today's Britain. This book recovers the encounter with
a "multicultural" Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and
Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth
century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately
took to the roads to discover it first-hand, and those diverse
cultures guided and informed his journeys. Here, John Cramsie
offers original perspectives on Camden's multicultural Britain
through the study of British travellersand their narratives. We
meet characters such as the Tudor traveller John Leland, who
intended to tell the peoples of England and Wales about themselves;
chronicle how they came to settle the towns, villages, valleys, and
mountaintops they called home; record the marks they left in the
landscape; and celebrate the noble histories and cultures they
created. Dozens - eventually hundreds - of Britons shared the same
passion to meet their island neighbours and relate their
experiences. The individuals studied in this book include actual as
well as armchair travellers and those who blurred the boundaries
between them. Their letters, diaries, journals, and histories range
from the epic,poignant, and matter of fact to the exotic,
preposterous, and hateful; the sources include actual and
imaginative narratives and those which combined both elements.
Travellers painted Britain with, in Leland's words, native colours
that were rich, vibrant, and, above all, complex. Their remarkable
journeys are the story of how Britons over two centuries met,
interacted, and attempted (or not) to understand one another.
Written with an eye to debates aboutimmigration and ethnicity in
today's Britain, the book emphasizes the long history of making and
remaking the island's cultural mosaic. The encounter with Britain's
native colours has been a burden of history and opportunity
formillennia, not simply for our own times. JOHN CRAMSIE is
Associate Professor, Department of History, Union College, NY.
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