Callum G. Brown - Britain Since 1707

Callum G. Brown and W. Hamish Fraser

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This book charts the history of Great Britain from the Treaty of Union of 1707 that united the parliament of Scotland with that of England and Wales, to the year 2009, when the power of that united parliament was looking challenged. It is a book that seeks to incorporate each of the constituent elements of Britain, including Ireland (until 1922) and Northern Ireland (since 1922). Amid current debates on Britishness, we seek to explore both the common grounds and the great varieties of experience within the British Isles over the three centuries for which the modern state of Britain has existed. We look at the tensions between a large England and its smaller neighbours in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, at the rise and fall of the Empire, and at the tensions of social class, religion and gender change as they too have risen and sometimes fallen. We look at the indirect paths from a rural agricultural nation to a post-industrial high-tech economy, from a Christian country to a multicultural, though largely secular, one, and from an undemocratic nation through the advent of the universal franchise to one in which loss of confidence in politics is causing voter apathy and even revolt. The agendas of the historian change through the three centuries, and we try to keep pace with those.