Resources (by topic)
History & Background Literature
- Bagehot, Walter (2001). The English Constitution. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Miles Taylor. First published in 1867. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Bogdanor, Vernon (2001). Devolution in the United Kingdom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Burk, Kathleen (ed.) (2003). The British Isles since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Childs, David (2006). Britain since 1945. London: Routledge.
- Gauger, Hildegerd and Hermann Metzger (1954). British political speeches and debates from Cromwell to Churchill. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Heyck, Thomas W. (2002). History of the Peoples of the British Isles: From 1870 to the Present. London: Routledge.
- Morgan, Kenneth O. (1999). The People's Peace: British History since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Mustad, Jan Erik and Ulla Rahbeck (Eds.) (2006). A Short Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
- Oakland, John (2006). British Civilization. An Introduction. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Pearce, Malcolm & Geoffrey Stewart (2002). British political history, 1867-2001. Democracy and decline. Third edition. London: Routledge.
- Robbins, Keith (1994). The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain 1870-1992. Harlow.
British Identity
- Alibhai Brown, Yasmin (2000). Who do we think we are?: imagining the new Britain. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
- Colley, Linda (2003). Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 – 1837. London, Pimlico.
- Colls, Peter (2004). Identity of England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Eriksen, Helle Linné (2006). Walking the Tartan Tightrope. The British Labour Party and the Scottish Question 1974-1979, Cand. philol thesis, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo.
- Gilroy, Paul (1991). There ain't no black in the Union Jack: the cultural politics of race and nation. Chicago.
- Gray, Peter (2004). Victoria's Ireland?: Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901. Dublin.
- Harvie, Christopher (2004). Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707 to the present. London: Routledge.
- Morgan, Kenneth (1981). Rebirth of a Nation: A History of Modern Wales. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Nairn, Tom (1981). The Break-Up of Britain: crisis and neo-nationalism. London.
- Nairn, Tom (2001). After Britain: New Labour and the return of Scotland. London.
- Powell, David (2002). Nationhood and Identity: the British state since 1800. London: I. B. Tauris.
- Robbins, Keith (1998). Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness. London, Longman.
- Ward, Paul (2004). Britishness since 1870. London: Routledge.
Political Life in Britain
- Dunleavy, Patrick et al. (eds) (2003). Developments in British politics. Seventh edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
- Evans, Eric J. (2004). Thatcher and Thatcherism. London: Routledge.
- Fairclough, Norman (2000). New Labour, New Language? London: Routledge.
- Heffernan, Richard (2000). New Labour and Thatcherism. London: Basingstoke.
- Hickson, Kevin and Anthony Seldon (2004). New Labour, Old Labour. The Wilson and Callaghan Governments. London: Routledge.
- Oakland, John (2001). Contemporary Britain: A Survey with Texts. London: Routledge.
- Seldon, Anthony (ed.) (2001). The Blair Effect. The Blair Government 1997-2001. London: Little, Brown and Company.
- Seldon, Anthony and Daniel Collings (2000). Britain Under Thatcher. London: Longman.
- Toynbee, Polly and David Walker (2001). Did things get better? An audit of Labour's successes and failures. London: Penguin Books.
British Foreign Policy
- Aldous, Richard & Sabine Lee (eds) (1996). Harold Macmillan and Britain's world role. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
- Blackwell, Michael (1993). Clinging to Grandeur. British Attitudes and Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of Second World War. London: Greenwood Press.
- Bratberg, Øyvind (2005). "Grand Nations, Grand Ideas. Guiding Principles in the Foreign Policy of Britain and France". MA Thesis. Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
- Clarke, Michael (1992). British external policy-making in the 1990s. Basingstoke: MacMillan/the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
- Croft, Stuart (ed.). British security policy. The Thatcher years and the end of the Cold War. London: Harper Collins.
- Curtis, Mark (1995). The ambiguities of power. British foreign policy since 1945. London: Zed Books.
- Dickie, John (2004). The New Mandarins. How British Foreign Policy Works. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Frankel, Joseph (1975). British foreign policy 1945-1973. London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs/Oxford University Press.
- Hoggett, Paul (2005). "Iraq: Blair's Mission Impossible". The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 7:3.
- Howorth, Jolyon (2000). "Britain, France and the European Defence Initiative", Survival, Vol. 42, No. 2.
- Miskimmon, Alister (2004). "Continuity in the Face of Upheaval – British Strategic Culture and the Impact of the Blair Government", European Security, Vol. 13, No. 3.
- Porter, Bernard (1987). Britain, Europe and the world 1850-1986: Delusions of grandeur. London: Unwin Hyman.
- Sharp, Paul (1997). Thatcher's diplomacy. The revival of British foreign policy. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
- Smith, Michael et al. (eds) (1988). British foreign policy. Tradition, change and transformation. London: Unwin Hyman.
- Stothard, Peter (2003). 30 Days. Harper Collins Press.
- Tugendhat, Christopher & William Wallace (1988). Options for British foreign policy in the 1990s. London: Routledge/The Royal Institute of International Affairs.
- Wallace, William (1992). "British Foreign Policy after the Cold War". International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 68, No. 3.
Britain and Europe
- Ash, Timothy Garton (2001). "Is Britain European?", International Affairs, Vol. 77, No.1.
- George, Stephen (1998). An Awkward Partner. Britain in the European Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Haugevik, Kristin M. (2005). Strategic adaptation or identity change? An analysis of Britain's approach to the ESDP 1998-2004, NUPI paper no 688, 2005.
- Heffernan, Richard (2001). "Beyond Euro-Scepticism: Exploring the Europeanization of the Labour Party since 1983", The Political Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1.
- Hill, Christopher (1996). "United Kingdom. Sharpening Contradictions", in Christopher Hill (ed.). The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.
Speeches and Statements by British Prime Ministers
- Gordon Brown [Labour, 2007-present]
Speeches and statements (10 Downing Street) - Tony Blair [Labour, 1997-2007]
Speeches and statements (10 Downing Street) - John Major [Conservative, 1990-1997]
Speeches and statements (The John Major site) - Margaret Thatcher [Conservative, 1979-1990]
Speeches and statements (the Margaret Thatcher Foundation) - James Callaghan [Labour, 1976-1979]
- Edward Heath [Conservative, 1970-1974]
- Harold Wilson [Labour, 1964-1970 and 1974-1976]
- Sir Alec Douglas Home [Conservative, 1963-1964]
- Harold Macmillan [Conservative, 1957-1963]
- Sir Anthony Eden [Conservative, 1955-1957]
- Clement Attlee [Labour, 1945-1951]
- Winston Churchill [Conservative, 1940-45 and 1951-55]
Speeches and statements (the Winston Churchill Centre)