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Tanja Bueltmann is Associate Professor in History at Northumbria UniversityDonald M. MacRaild is Professor of British and Irish History at University of Roehampton
This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire.
Introduction: ethnic associationalism and an English diaspora1. The origins and development of the English diaspora in North America2. Elite associations: from local to transnational3. Independent and sectarian: working-class English associational culture4. Ethnic activities and leisure cultures5. Charity and mutual aid: the pillars of English associations6. English, Scots and Germans compared: British and continental perspectives7. The making of a global diasporaConclusionAppendix 1 North American cities and towns with St George's societies and other English associationsAppendix 2 Lodges of the Order of the Sons of St George, 1885Appendix 3 Lodges of the Sons of England, 1896Index