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Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and the British

Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and the British
By Steve Lowe, Alan McArthur

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Everyone seems to be talking about 'Britishness' these days - but what does it really mean? Is it all just a big con? Having skewered modern British life in the bestselling Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit, Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur set out to uncover the deep dark truth about Britain - its history, its myths and its people. Over the course of a year they watch Dorset Morris men dancing on a chalk-giant's thirty-foot-long erection and search for a couple of pissed dragons under a hill in Wales. They ask Prince William what it means to be British, witness Scotland rising again (a bit), encounter terrifying Europhobe ladies in Surrey, and lose the will to live in Gibraltar. They also meet a lot of druids. Hilarious, timely and provocative, BLIGHTY offers a brilliant, alternative vision of Britain - the island in the Atlantic that some people call Britain.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #21706 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-10-16
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 304 pages

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For Is it Just Me: 'So relentlessly bitter it's actually rather uplifting' Marie Claire ** 'A treasury of adroitly observed, often hilarious mini-rants that say something quite substantial about the stupidity and shoddiness of modern Britain' GUARDIAN ** 'Brilliantly misanthropic' TIME OUT ** 'Very funny ... bound to strike a chord with any city-living cynic' OBSERVER

About the Author
Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur are the authors of IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? Volumes 1 and 2. Steve Lowe lives in Brighton and Alan McArthur lives in London. This is their third book.

Customer Reviews

Loved it5
I loved this book! I hardly ever read about history but this was so funny and challenging that I was hooked. I loved the details - bizarre and upsetting in turn like their description of the Darwin Experience. And fantastic writing that has stuck in my head. One of my favourite lines is "that's the problem with England, where once there were harvesters, now there are Harvesters". I just think that says it all.