Sentences with phrase «british national identity»

In Her Majesty's SPIFFING (that's the Special Planetary Investigative Force For Inhabiting New Galaxies) players will be charged with solving both mental and physical puzzles, all the while being rewarded with a sharp and witty script that subtly analyses British national identity in a typically humble fashion.

In December 2004 and October 2005, Reid voted in favour of a bill enabling the British national identity card.

David Mitchell has said that the prospect of Scottish independence makes him worried about his British national identity.

In the 1990s, commentators across the political spectrum observed the rise of civic British national identity in the UK.

Brexiteers continue to stoke up aggressive nationalism (asserting the inherent superiority of British national identity) because they wish to displace arguments grounded in fairness and the equitable redistribution of wealth from common political discourse.

Not exact matches

The fear of being bossed around by a united, hostile, and alien Europe has been part of the British (more precisely, the English) national identity since at least the 16th century.

Anjum Anwar was speaking after the documentary, called «What British Muslims Really Think», surveyed 1000 British Muslims and explored their beliefs about various social issues including national identity, violence, sexuality and gender relations.

By 1881, the Afrikaner national identity was again threatened, this time by the imperialistic — British — culture of «liquor, lucre, and redcoats.»

The effect of personality on British identity and the importance of national identity for support for independence again suggests that personality is vitally important to understanding attitudes towards Scottish independence.

It showed that, in England, Englishness is the predominant national identity, expressed by two thirds of the population (with 58 % choosing only English identity), while just 29 % identify with Britishness (19 % choosing only British identity).

The essentialist argument has long been problematic, too, given the way in which the colonial experience created so many different strains of British - and Englishness that have filtered back into the home country's national identity, while being products of somewhere else.

Yet counter-intuitive as it may seem to many, our survey makes clear that, in England, the more exclusively British a person's sense of national identity, the more pro-European that person's attitudes tend to be.

The «Prayer Survey»: http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1704430/prayersurvey.pdf The Church of England's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/03/four-out-of-five-believe-in-the-power-of-prayer.aspx Read the previous BHA press release, «Census results show huge shift in cultural identity from Christianity to no religion», 11 December 2012: http://humanism.org.uk/2012/12/11/census-results-show-huge-shift-in-cultural-identity-from-christianity-to-no-religion/ The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Artist's National Portrait Gallery show, tying in with C4 series, explores British identity, including that of jailed cabinet minister

National identity cards will be given to British citizens two years later than planned, it has emerged.

The conference represents an important milestone in the British Academy's flagship policy programme on the topic and delegates will discuss a wide range of issues including the position of England within the UK parliament, the future of national political parties and matters of English identity.

The great scientific traditions of Europe have had strong national identities; one naturally thinks of Pasteur as French, Newton as British, Pauli as German.

RIBA National Award winners announced for 2016 The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the identities of the 46 winners of its annual nationalNational Award winners announced for 2016 The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the identities of the 46 winners of its annual nationalnational awards.

- Peter Doig1 British / Canadian artist Peter Doig stands in a position seemingly riddled with contradictions: straddling national identities; employing a medium (photography) historically thought to lead to the eventual disappearance of his own medium (painting); and working within a continuum of large scale figurative and landscape oil paintings.

«Ofili's Union Black asks questions about British identity, the colonial legacy and the meaning of national allegiance which remain as relevant today as they were when the work was created 14 years ago,» said Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, in a press statement.

The birth of InIVA, though tied to the above international impetus and the more fraught, and sometimes transgressive territory of identity politics — embodied a year earlier in the 1993 Whitney Biennial — was also the culmination of a more national struggle for representation amongst a cadre of pioneering non-white British artists, writers and intellectuals.

Black British artists in the 80s defied the Thatcherite age with courageous experimental work that seems increasingly influential in reinventing national identity and the nature of British art itself.

In their passport project Antarctica, British - Argentine artist duo Lucy + Jorge Orta will envisage new possibilities for community and environment, by inviting visitors to symbolically transfer their individual national identity into that of a collective world citizen.

which was accompanied by a solo presentation of works on the theme of portraiture and British identity at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2014 — 2015).

Shonibare's questioning of cultural and national definitions is a pertinent one for Hong Kong, whose identity has been affected by the conflicting influences of Chinese and British colonialism.

Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965 - 1980, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Image and Identity in African American Art, Highlights from the Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Beyond the Mountaintop, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Blacks: In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA West Coast Masters of Assemblage & Collage, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Ambassador Maurice Parker Residence, Mbabane, Swaziland

Artist's National Portrait Gallery show, tying in with C4 series, explores British identity, including that of jailed cabinet minister

How Grayson Perry Depicted Belfast Loyalists Belfast Telegraph; November 6, 2014; Ferguson, Amanda; 700 + words... the National Portrait Gallery in London.Turner Prize and BAFTA - winning artist Grayson Perry has created a computerised embroidery banner... examination of modern British identity, artist Grayson Perry met five loyalists from the Newtownards...

[72] British people used their art «to illustrate their knowledge and command of the natural world», whilst the permanent settlers in British North America, Australasia, and South Africa «embarked upon a search for distinctive artistic expression appropriate to their sense of national identity».

Shown in the context of the Commonwealth Games, her new film A Whole New World is a black comedy, which examines what it means to be British and the ways in which national identity is constructed and deconstructed in the age of globalisation and digital connectedness.