THE UK AFTER BREXIT: - CAN AND WILL THE ANGLOSPHERE

The first of these works, English Nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere (Manchester University Press) by Ben Wellings shows how the ideas about the Anglosphere operated as an alternative to membership of the European Union before and after the 2016 referendum. [...] The second work, a volume edited by Ben Wellings and Andrew Mycock The Anglosphere: continuity, dissonance, location (published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Academy) explains the historical genesis and contemporary manifestations of the Anglosphere idea and its (misguided) appeal to Brexiteers and those i dealing with the policy implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the E. [...] The Anglosphere idea was especially attractive to Eurosceptics in the UK: the emergence of right-wing Euroscepticism in the UK from the early 1990s encouraged and required a xiii renaissance of Anglosphere idea as an alternative to membership of the European Union. [...] The result of the EU referendum saw ‘Anglospherism’ shift from aspirational advocacy on the fringes of the right to the centre of British politics, as the UK government has sought to re-imagine existing diplomatic, trade and security relationships. [...] Carl Bridge and Bart Zielinski, ‘The Anglosphere and the American Embrace: the end of the British Empire and after’, in The Anglosphere: continuity, dissonance, location, Proceedings of the British Academy 226, Ben Wellings and Andrew Mycock (eds.), op.