Opposition to the Channel Tunnel

What is it about?

The opposition to a channel tunnel provides a way of analysing 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. 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.

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