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²¹ There are analogies here with the problem of the ‘claim to represent’ at the political level, described in Jon Lawrence, Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

²² See in particular Martin Daunton, ‘Britain and Globalisation since 1850: I. Creating a Global Order, 1850–1914’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 16 (2006), 1–38, and ‘Britain and Globalisation since 1850: II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 17 (2007), 1–33; and also the work of Frank Trentmann.