Defining John Bull demonstrates that caricature played a vital role in the redefinition of what it meant to be British. The public's increasing interest in political controversies meant that satirists turned their attention to individuals and the issues involved. This long reign was marked by political crises, both foreign and domestic and caricaturists responded with an outpouring of work that led the era to be called the 'golden age' of caricature. These multitudinous prints, produced in response to public demands and sensitive to public attitudes, indicate the redefinition of existing ideals.

There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book, first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth and asks: who were the newcomers and why were they coming? What were the distinctive features of their economic and social lives in Britain? How did British society respond to their presence? The resulting book is a major historical survey of immigration which synthesises and evaluates existing work and weaves in new material on a wide range of immigrant minorities.

"The History of John Bull" become written with the aid of the Scottish health practitioner and writer John Arbuthnot in 1712. It is a humorous allegory. As an allegorical story, the story makes use of characters that don't look like people to represent political players and events within the early 18th century. John Bull, who stands for English people, is shown as a success and sincere businessman. The tale is primarily based on Bull's interactions with other characters, every of whom represents an exclusive of an or celebration organization. The tale catches the political scene of the time in a funny manner, bringing up events just like the War of the Spanish Succession and the Peace of Utrecht. Arbuthnot's paintings make clever and humorous feedback about politics and power battles in the modern international. Through the person of John Bull, he makes a laugh of the politics and policies of the time by displaying how complicated overseas own family lifestyles can be and how stupid humans may be. People have continually appreciated "The History of John Bull" as a political satire because it became humorous and made clever feedback approximately the social and political issues of the time. People still examine and love Arbuthnot's symbolic story as a piece of literature that is going past its ancient placing and makes timeless observations approximately how human beings act and the way politicians paintings.