British Cultural Identities analyses contemporary British identity from the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Each chapter covers one of the seven intersecting themes: place and environment education, work and leisure gender, sex and the family youth culture and style class and politics ethnicity and language religion and heritage The second edition of this successful book brings it right up to date to cover such phenomena as Posh and Becks, Jamie Oliver, Big Brother, the Millenium Dome and Harry Potter.