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.
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC and British brandingThe corporation’s claims to the public and to neutrality are crucial for the British state and its power across the globe.
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Published in: HomeNeoliberalism, crisis and the world systemAn insider glimpse of the conference that inspired this week's theme, plus an outsider view.
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Published in: HomeNeoliberalism, crisis and the world system – an introductionThis week’s guest editor, Claire Westall, a Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York,...
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Published in: ourBeebCricket, Empire and the BBCDespite the sale of televised England home-matches from the BBC to commercial broadcasting, cricket remains central...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Last Great British Summer for EnglandThe desperate construction of cultural Britishness observable in this summer's Jubilee and Olympics is just another...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiterature of an Independent EnglandA gathering will consider the emergence of Englishness (or not)