HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Broad Group, Aristocracy, The Great Exhibition
Document Summary
Great exhibition of art and industry of all nations (1851) or crystal palace exhibition. England led uk culture, population, was the epicentre in 1801, economically dominates rest of the union. Sense that all of uk should follow england. 1535 and 1543 - wars of england and wales, union of wales with england. Welsh maintained distinct identity from the british; exemplified by welsh language itself, which remains strong. Scotland joins england and wales in 1707, remains distinct in a few ways: legal system, educational system, religion (dominance of presbyterianism in scotland), tremendous resistance, particularly in the highlands, of joining with. England; series of wars in the 1700s in which this resistance is quashed; affinities also involving coal mines. Ireland, i. e. landowners are mainly anglican, strongly identify with britain, but also entire peasant class who are catholic. 1801 formation of uk in the midst of napoleonic war; after 1815, britain emerges out of wars with revolutionary france quite unscathed.
