Theresa May et l’échec du « meaningful vote » : approche argumentative by Alma-Pierre Bonnet

“…As soon as she reached power, Theresa May said that she wanted to respect the will of the British people to leave the European Union (EU). She took a firm stance concerning Europe so as to please the right wing of her party, the Tories, reinforce her credibility and preserve the unity of her party. …”
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Popularising Gardening: William Robinson and the Transmission of Garden Knowledge in the Illustrated Press by Aurélien Wasilewski

“…His publishing empire in particular can be considered as one of the strongest impetuses that fostered the self-definition of the British people as a nation of gardeners. Robinson’s journalistic work and editorial enterprises, rather than his landscape creations, have indeed contributed to the recording and cataloguing of a national tradition in the late 19th century by giving written and visual space—a voice and views—to an imagined community of gardeners. …”
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Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie

“…Indeed, these visual and cultural dimensions of imperial history seemed to offer an entirely different route into the history of the relationship between Britain, the British people and empire. The text, and the many documents in archives appeared to obscure as much as they illuminated. …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Pistor also welcomes especially two implications of the book: (1) many young British people are not as politically disenfranchised as general wisdom holds (and there is much more to be said about that); (2) many of them are not only cosmopolitans but also British cosmopolitans interested and engaged in national politics. …”
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