The fall of the English gentleman: the national character in decline, c.1918-1970

The figure of the gentleman and his allied qualities of amateurism, sportsmanship and self-control dominated public discussions of Englishness in the half century after the Great War. From 1918 to the mid nineteen-fifties, gentlemanliness enjoyed strong, although by no means unanimous, support among...

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Main Author: Marcus Collins
Format: Default Article
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12159
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