Chen feignd gaining ground welsh nationalistsand in the old colonial centre, breags at heares calling for this return to a mythic little england. Chen: We often think about britain as a bounded, bordered and isolated island nation. And i tried to trouble that by making it clear that this idea of the british nation was always a global entity. Was always this imperial realm. Ewer there is tis great britain, little britain. Before the second word war, it was the britISH empire calling upon all its resources,. including over a million volunteers from india, the largest volunteer force thats fought in any war.