Untied Kingdom

Stuart Ward is a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Originally from Australia, his career has spanned appointments in Italy, the UK, Ireland and Denmark, including visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, the University of Exeter and the University of Greenland. His previous publications include The Unknown Nation (2010), shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister's History Prize. He was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Scottish History Prize (2014) for his work on the SNP at empire's end.

• List of Figures; Introduction; Part I. Prologue: 1. Offshore Formations: The Unbearable Bandwidth of Being British; 2. The Limits of Location: Greater Britain; 3. 'British with a Small 'b'': The Impress of Internationalism; Part II. Registers: 4. 'We Mustn't Mention the Empire': The British Name; 5. Homes Away from Home: The Houses of Windsor; 6. Imperial Welcome: The British Subject; 7. The Wind Changes: Human Rights after Smuts; 8. Pride in the Goods: The Moral Economy of the Common Market; 9. Uncommon Law: The Reach of British Justice; Part III. Repercussions: 10. East and West of Suez: Receding Frontiers; 11. Backing Little Britain: Distempers; 12. The Last Refuge: Coming Home to England; 13. 'British We are and British We Stay': Troubles; 14. Stop the World: Celtic Departures; 15. 'Cosmologies of Our Own': After Britain; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'This new history of the transformation of Britain's place in the world casts the Union's contemporary crisis in a whole new light by uncovering the long-term demise of British allegiances around the world, and forging connections between the end of empire and the break-up of Britain.' The Bookseller