Creeds and identities -- Liberal journalism and the patriotic cosmos -- The insularity of English art, letters, politics, and thought: Chesterton's critique of the Fin de Siècle -- Liberalism, democracy, and the English nation -- The dissident liberal -- Authenticity, the English, and the Jews -- Prussianism, teutonism, and the literary war -- History versus historians in the first world war -- Nationalism, internationalism, and the English past after 1918.