The Roots Of British Nationalism
In 1902 the English writer Robert Blatchford coined the term ‘Britain For The British’ as the title of a book he published that year. An earlier work entitled ‘Merrie England’ had been first published in 1894 and these two books established Blatchford’s credentials both as one of the foremost socialist writers of his time and a founding father of the British Labour movement, but also as one of the founding fathers of British nationalism. Blatchford,…