Claire Westall

Claire Westall is a Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York. She co-edited, Literature of an Independent England (2013) and co-authored The Public on the Public (2015), both with Michael Gardiner.

The BBC and British branding

The corporation’s claims to the public and to neutrality are crucial for the British state and its power across the globe.

By Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall

/ 27 May 2016

Neoliberalism, crisis and the world system

An insider glimpse of the conference that inspired this week's theme, plus an outsider view.

By Claire Westall and Tristan Sechrest

/ 15 Jul 2013

Neoliberalism, crisis and the world system – an introduction

This week’s guest editor, Claire Westall, a Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York, guides us through the argument this week:

By Claire Westall

/ 14 Jul 2013

Cricket, Empire and the BBC

Despite the sale of televised England home-matches from the BBC to commercial broadcasting, cricket remains central to collective imaginings of 'Englishness'. Recent attempts to situate the sport within the history of empire reveal much about the BBC's continuing ties to the ideology of state-led

By Claire Westall

/ 13 Jul 2012

The Last Great British Summer for England

The desperate construction of cultural Britishness observable in this summer's Jubilee and Olympics is just another attempt to conflate British identity with an idealised vision of England. The motivation for those in power is clear: to disguise the gaping constitutional issues that threaten the U

By Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall

/ 14 Jun 2012

Literature of an Independent England

A gathering will consider the emergence of Englishness (or not)

By Claire Westall

/ 4 Nov 2010