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3 - ‘Goodbye and the Best of British’

Echoes of Greater Britain at the Onset of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2019

Ezequiel Mercau
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University College Dublin
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Chapter 3 reveals how, in the aftermath of the Argentine invasion, a recrudescence of Greater British imagery began to permeate the public sphere in the UK, portraying the Task Force as an effort to liberate ‘kith and kin’. These very events, however, also gave rise to publicly aired divisions on this subject, unleashing in turn a debate over the very meaning of ‘being British’. Nowhere was this conversation more heated than in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, where the defence of ‘kith and kin’ in the South Atlantic infiltrated national identity debates, accentuating divisions and disagreement.
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The Falklands War
An Imperial History
, pp. 71 - 98
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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