Term applied to some aspects of British popular culture in the 1990s
Cover of Vanity Fair's March 1997 issue featuring Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit, with the headline "London Swings Again!".
Cool Britannia was a name for the period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom throughout the mid and second half of the 1990s, inspired by Swinging London from 1960s pop culture. This loosely coincided with John Major's conservative government and the 1997 United Kingdom general election where Tony Blair's New Labour government won in a landslide. The success of Britpop and musical acts such as the Spice Girls, Blur, and Oasis reflected a renewed feeling of optimism in the United Kingdom following the tumultuous years of the 1970s and 1980s. The name is a pun on the title of the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!"
CoolBritannia was a name for the period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom throughout the mid and second half of the 1990s, inspired...
Britannia (/brɪˈtæniə/) is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used by the...
commentators long after the term CoolBritannia has fallen out of favour. Commentators have alluded to CoolBritannia and Cymru as a by-product of the...
led the teen pop resurgence of the 1990s, were a major part of the CoolBritannia era, and became pop culture icons of the decade. The Spice Girls were...
perceive as "cool". After the success of "Cool Britannia," the Japanese government started using the phrase. The Cool Japan strategy is part of Japan's overall...
mainstream and formed the larger British popular cultural movement, CoolBritannia, which evoked the Swinging Sixties and the British guitar pop of that...
shoes, fleeces, cropped tank tops, Union jack motifs inspired by the CoolBritannia movement, and military inspired clothing, such as flak jackets with...
rivals Oasis. Britpop in turn would form the backbone of the broader CoolBritannia movement. Parklife therefore has attained a cultural significance above...
Virgin Books; ISBN 0-7535-0287-9 Harris, John (2003) "Damon Albarn: From CoolBritannia to radical campaigner for peace", The Independent, 15 February 2003...
abilities, including being able to perform back handsprings. The term "CoolBritannia" became prominent in the media and represented the new political and...
synonymous with the Spice Girls, Halliwell and the notions of Girl Power and CoolBritannia. In 2010, The Daily Telegraph reported that the dress came top in an...
areas of interest, race, music and 1990s popular culture, to write CoolBritannia and Multi-ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova. He has...
scene. From about 1997, as dissatisfaction grew with the concept of CoolBritannia and Britpop as a movement began to dissolve, emerging bands began to...
formed the backbone of a larger British cultural movement known as CoolBritannia. Although its more popular bands, particularly Blur and Oasis, were...
on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Harris, John. Britpop!: CoolBritannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock. Da Capo Press, 2004. Pg...
Practically Edible. Retrieved 30 April 2011. Potter, Mich (9 October 2007). "CoolBritannia rules the whey". Toronto Star. Retrieved 4 January 2009. Tunick, Michael...
symmetry between the two events. For while Hamed rode sidecar to the CoolBritannia era rather than sitting in the driver's seat, his attitude was a snug...
and formed the backbone of a larger British cultural movement called CoolBritannia. Although its more popular bands were able to spread their commercial...
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