Britain Etc.

1. K. Martin, The Magic of Monarchy (Knopf, 1937)

2. T. Nairn, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy (Radius, 1988)

3. P. Smith, Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001)

4. P. Barker, E. Bauer, B. Brown, et al, The Meaning of the Jubilee (Institute of Community Studies, 2002), www.youngfoundation.org

5. E. Shils and M. Young, ‘The Meaning of the Coronation’, The Sociological Review, 1 (1953)

6. J. M. T. Balmer, Comprehending the Constitutional Monarchies of Britain and Sweden: Issues of Trust and Corporate Brand Management (Bradford School of Management, 2005), www.bradford.ac.uk

7. T. Paine, Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (1776)

8. W. Bagehot, The English Constitution (Chapman and Hall, 1867)

9. No Royal Rollercoaster (Ipsos MORI, 2002), www.ipsos-mori.com

10. D. Cannadine and S. Price (eds.), Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1992)

R is for Regions

1. C. Tacitus, The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, edited by R. M. Ogilvie, I. A. Richmond (c. AD 98; Oxford University Press, 1967)

2. D. Shillan, The Practice of Synthesis in the Works of Patrick Geddes (New Atlantis Foundation, 1972)

3. Royal Commission on Local Government in England: The Redcliffe-Maud Report (The National Archives, Cmnd 4040, 1969), www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

4. J. Prescott, Alternative Regional Strategy: A Framework for Discussion (Labour Party, 1982)

5. J. Bradbury, Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development: The UK Experience (Routledge, 2008)

6. K. Meagher, ‘The real battle for the future of the English regions is just beginning’, Labour Uncut, 4 November 2010, www.labour-uncut.co.uk

7. H. Elcock, Is English Regionalism Dead? Lessons after the North-East Referendum (University of Glamorgan, 2009)

8. The Association of British Counties, www.abcounties.co.uk

S is for Silly Hats

1. J. Timbs, English Eccentrics and Eccentricities (R. Bentley, 1866)

2. E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds.) The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1983)

3. K. Grenier, Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914: Creating Caledonia (Ashgate, 2005)

4. D. Willetts, Modern Conservatism (Penguin, 1992)

5. J. Dunleavy and G. Dunleavy, Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland (University of California Press, 1991)

6. J. T. Church, ‘Confabulations of community: the Hamefarins and political discourse on Shetland’, Anthropological Quarterly, 63 (1990)

T is for Toilet

1. L. Lambton, Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight (Pavilion, 1998)

2. R. Middlemist, E. Knowles and C. Matter, ‘Personal space invasions in the lavatory: suggestive evidence for arousal’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35 (1976)

3. S. Zizek, ‘Knee deep’, London Review of Books, 26 (2004)

4. C. Greed, Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets (Architectural Press, 2003)

5. G. Jones, Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain (Taylor & Francis, 1986)

6. S. Feldman, ‘Going to the ladies’, New Humanist, 125 (2010)

7. M. Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge and K. Paul, 1966)

8. N. Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)

9. D. Erasmus, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus (1530)

10. G. Della Casa, Galateo (1609)

11. R. Weste, The Booke of Demeanour and the Allowance and Disallowance of Certaine Misdemeanors in Companie (1619)

12. M. Allen, ‘From cesspool to sewer: sanitary reform and the rhetoric of resistance, 1848–1880’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 30 (2002)

13. E. Chadwick, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842; Edinburgh University Press, 1965)

14. The SCA Hygiene Report 2011 (SCA, 2011), www.sca.com

15. A brief history of the toilet, www.victoriaplumb.com

16. British Toilet Association, www.britloos.co.uk

U is for Umbrellas

1. J. Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (The University of Chicago Press, 2007)

2. M. Hulme, ‘Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 (2008)

3. L. Boia, The Weather in the Imagination (Reaktion Books, 2005)

4. H. L. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (Loeb Classical Library, 1923)

5. J. Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of the Air on Human Bodies (J. and R. Tonson, 1733), www.archive.org