Review: The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys, 1685 to the Present

At a time when billboards have been driven around London urging illegal immigrants to 'go home', when photographs of the arrests of those suspected of breaching their visas were being tweeted by the Home Office (with the hashtag #immigrationoffenders), and when 39,000 texts stating 'go home' have been sent to suspected overstayers, the publication of Tony Kishner's The Battle of Britishness is particularly timely.