Abstract
It has been argued that discourses about identity, both individual and collective, are mythopoeic. This process of mythmaking also implies a relation to ‘the past’, and to memory. An exploration of Englishness thus needs to address various forms of memory; for my account of this I draw on the work of Jan and Aleida Assmann who have developed an influential and sophisticated theory of collective memory.’ They take their cue from Maurice Halbwachs’ notion that memory is essentially a social phenomenon, and that there could be no individual memory to speak of without social interaction and an individual’s integration into a network of social relations.
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