The myth of 'Scouse not English' - Scouse identity: history, mystery, and political relevance today

This is a presentation I gave at the 2021 Political Studies Association Annual Conference in March 2021.

In this talk, I look at:

🗺 The geographic distribution of the Scouse identity across Merseyside - Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St. Helens and the Wirral

🗳 The relationship between Scouseness and party politics

🆔 How Scouseness compared to 🇬🇧 Britishness, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Englishness, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottishness and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welshness when it comes to ideological values, including left-right position, authoritarian-libertarianism, populism and equality.

🏛 How scouse identity impacts support for the Liverpool City Region

🚨 Warning: I tried to fit 30 mins of content into 20 mins - if you want to have a more in-depth conversation, or want to have a chat about potential research collaboration, please get in touch! I'm always happy to geek out.

[wirralh]

Whatever Liverpool wants to be, the Wirral has got nothing to do with Liverpool or its paranoid and parochial us against the world attitude.

[orfordwolf]

They tried pull Warrington and Chester into the Liverpool city region. We told them where to go.

[the-blue-barron]

There's no historical bases for independence as a separate people for Liverpool.

[orfordwolf]

Scousers versus a world of bad wools. The scouse chip is real.

[Liverbird]

'Knowsley is not a real place' 😅 Currently writing my thesis on Knowsley.

[拉屎-me]

The victim complex is not just a football team and all their so called woes are self made. It is in their genes.

[SwedishEgg]

When someone asks where I’m from I say anfield Liverpool not Liverpool England. ✌🏻