Article ID: CBB001550427

Opposition to the Channel Tunnel, 1882--1975: Identity, Island Status and Security (2014)

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Redford, Duncan (Author)


History
Volume: 99, no. 334
Issue: 334
Pages: 100-120

This article will discuss the defence arguments that were used to oppose the channel tunnel, the relationship between these arguments and Britain's island status, the perceptions of British insularity, together with how and possibly why these changed in the period 1882-1975. The opposition to the Channel Tunnel project, especially in the period 1880 to 1945, can provide historians with a valuable insight into the British relationship with the sea. In particular, the opposition to a channel tunnel provides a way of analysing concepts of island status within Britain and what being an island meant to the British sense of self and identity, as they were expressed in the media as well as in official papers. At the same time, the changing attitudes to a channel tunnel, notably in the inter-war period and the post-1945 era, also show how the British understanding of what being an island state gave them in terms of security and identity changed. Such a change was as a result of new or improving technologies, particularly the aircraft, and the resulting impact it had on conceptions of security that being an island provided

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Authors & Contributors
Ann Gray
Brian P. Mills
Faith, Nicholas
Susan Major
Erin Bell
Matthew J. Cousineau
Concepts
Technology and culture
Railroads
Technology and society
Mass media
Land transportation
Technology and war; technology and the military
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Cornwall, England
England
Wales
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Institutions
Barry Railway
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