{"id":2749,"date":"2011-07-07T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2011-11-17T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:09:44","slug":"england-their-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/england-their-england\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGLAND, THEIR ENGLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank, reviews two new books on England with competing view of the state of the nation in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/blogs\/cultural-capital\/2011\/07\/bakewell-artists-books-omid\" target=\"_blank\">New Statesman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Visions-England-Sir-Roy-Strong\/dp\/1847921604\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1321527988&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Visions of England<\/a> by Sir Roy Strong.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Ghost-Milk-Calling-Grand-Project\/dp\/0241144353\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1321528046&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project<\/a> by Iain Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p>Of Strong&#8217;s confession to being &#8220;baffled&#8221;  by the charge that English nationalism is often chauvinistic,  Cruickshank writes: &#8220;He has no business being baffled about the way  English patriots are perceived.&#8221; Sinclair&#8217;s &#8220;view of England and  immigration,&#8221; Cruickshank goes on, &#8220;is a corrective to Strong&#8217;s  assertion that a rural idyll &#8216;offers an answer to the present crisis of  English identity'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can read an interview with Iain Sinclair about Ghost Milk <a title=\"The Books Interview: Iain Sinclair with Jonathan Derbyshire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/books\/2011\/08\/interview-london-olympics\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a review of Roy Strong&#8217;s book in the Guardian <a title=\"The pastoral has political uses by Terry Eagleton \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jul\/01\/visions-of-england-roy-strong-review\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank, reviews two new books on England with competing view of the state of the nation in this week&#8217;s New Statesman: Visions of England by Sir Roy Strong. Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair. Of Strong&#8217;s confession to being &#8220;baffled&#8221; by the charge that English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}