ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is the political culture of Britain and the means through which individuals are socialized into that culture. As I shall seek to show, that culture cannot be divorced from the constraints of history and of physical and spatial resources. Each has had a significant impact on the other. The collection of emotions and attitudes that form the political culture has served to shape actions and hence affect the nation’s history. Conversely, those actions, as well as the country’s geographic location and limited resources, have had consequences that have affected elite and mass attitudes.
