Bibliography on Britain, the British, Britishness, Englishness
- Anonymous, Onania; or, the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, and All its Frightful Consequences, Thomas Crouch, London, 1723
- Aperson, G.L., English Proverbs and proverbial phrases, London, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1929
- Appleyard, B., The Essential Anatomy of Britain, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992
- Boucé, Paul-Gabriel (ed), Sexuality in eighteenth-century Britain, Manchester UP, 1982, Manchester.
- Brown, Isaac Baker, On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females, Cox and Wyman, 1866 [read full text online]
- Browne, Sir Thomas, Religio Medici [read full text online]
- Bryson, Bill, Notes from a small island, Doubleday, London, 1995
- Cheyne, George, The English Malady; or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, with the Author’s Own Case (1733) [read full text online]
- Clarke, Cas, Grub on a Grant, Columbus Books, London, 1986
- Costello, Peter, The Dublin Literary Pub Crawl, Dublin, A & A Farmar, 1996
- Davies, Christie, Permissive Britain, Pitman Publishing, London, 1975
- Defoe, Daniel, The True-Born Englishman.
- Ferris, Paul, Sex and the British, A twentieth century history, Michael Joseph, London, 1993
- Ford, Martyn Alexander, The How to be British Collection, Lee Gone Publications, 2003 [relevant post: British politeness]
- Ford, Martyn Alexander, The How to be British Collection Two, Lee Gone Publications, 2009
- Forster, E.M, Notes on the English character [relevant posts]
- Grosvenor, Peter & McMillan, James, The British Genius, Coronet Books, London, 1974
- Hoch, Paul & Schoenbach, Vic, LSE: The Natives are Restless—A Report on Student Power in Action, Sheed and Ward, London and Sydney, 1969
- Hoggart, Richard, The Uses of Literacy, Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1959
- Hoggart, Richard, The Way We Live Now, Pimlico, London, 1995
- Leavis, F. R., English Literature in our time and the University, CUP, Cambridge, 1969
- MacFarlane, Alan, The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition, Blackwell, December 1978
- Mascuch, Michael, Origins of the Individualist Self : Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791, Stanford University Press / January 1997
- Mennel, Stephen, All Manners Of Food, Blackwell, 1985
- Miall, Antony, Xenophobe’s guide to the English, Ravette Publishing, West Sussex, 1993
- Mikes, George, How to be a Brit, Penguin, England, 1984
- Mikes, George, How to be an Alien, Penguin, England, 1966
- Morris, C., The Origins of English Individualism, Blackwell, Oxford, 1987
- Orwell, George, “The English People”. 1944; repr. in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 3, ed. by Sonia Orwell & Ian Angus, 1968)
- Osmond, John, The Divided Kingdom, Constable, London, 1988
- Paxman, Jeremy, The English, Penguin, 2007
- Robertson, John, Morrissey In His Own Words, Omnibus Press, London, NY, Sydney, 1988
- Room, Adrian, The A to Z of British Life, OUP, 1990
- Santayana, George, Soliloquies in England
- Shah, Idries, Darkest England, Octagon Press, London, 1987
- Shah, Idries, The Englishman’s Handbook, Octagon Press, London, 2000
- Shah, Idries, The Natives Are Restless, Octagon Press, London, 1988
