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The fall of the English gentleman: the national character in decline, c.1918-1970
The figure of the gentleman and his allied qualities of amateurism, sportsmanship and self-control dominated public discussions of Englishness in the half century after the Great War. From 1918 to the mid nineteen-fifties, gentlemanliness enjoyed strong, although by no means unanimous, support among commentators on national character. Subsequently, however, the reputation of the gentleman suffered irreparable damage at the hands of a post-war generation seeking scapegoats for the country’s perceived economic, geopolitical and moral decline. This article seeks to explain when and why gentlemanliness lost its reputation as the exemplar of Englishness, and the consequent effects on national culture and identity.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Citation
COLLINS, M., 2002. The fall of the English gentleman: the national character in decline, c.1918-1970. Historical Research, 75 (187), pp. 90 - 111.Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. © Institute of Historical ResearchVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2002Notes
Closed access. This article was published in the journal, Historical Research [Blackwell Publishing Ltd. © Institute of Historical Research] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00142ISSN
1468-2281Publisher version
Language
- en