Kicked myself later for forgetting to include Martin Parr. Surprised myself by thinking rural and mentioning Akenfield, that classic Ronald Blythe documentary about life in a small Suffolk village thirty years ago, and its more recent sequels, the film Akenfield Revisited and Craig Taylor, author of the well-recieved new book Return to Akenfield.
Not a hint of Celtic fringe or multiculturalism in here - Bristishness is a massive subject and this list, the fruit of a few years' work for me, only begins to scratch the surface.