Abstract: Victorian England was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, though historiography for much of the twentieth-century ignored the implications of this fact. It seemed sufficient to write English history and pay only marginal and modest attention to the history of Scotland and Wales. Political developments over the last thirty years, however, which have led to the creation of a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly, have seen a re-examination of the relationships between the various territories of Britain. The historiography under review has re-emphasized the extent to which nineteenth-century Britain (and Britain-Ireland) was indeed a political union but it was one of multiple cultural identities. It has sought to create a new balance between high and low politics and between the core and the periphery of the state.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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