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Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth-Century Britain
is a significant new study of the work of the popular historian and
journalist Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). Since his death,
scholarly interest in Bryant has focused on his Nazi sympathies in
the late 1930s. Julia Stapleton broadens our understanding of the
man and the writer. Stapleton illuminates Bryant's romantic ideal
of his nation. She explores the historian's success in writing for
a broad middlebrow audience, aided by his firsthand experience of
two world wars; and she traces the decline of Bryant's authority
beginning in the 1960s as the discipline of history diversified and
new ties were forged between professional historians and popular
readerships. Stapleton suggests that Bryant prefigured and
sustained a form of nationalism that remained nascent within the
British population (though not always its elites) deep into the
twentieth century, as the Falklands episode and the recent
resurgence of English national identity well illustrate. Twenty
years after his death, when history has scaled new heights of
popularity, a study of the historian whose work made perhaps the
largest public impact in twentieth-century Britain could not be
more timely.
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