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Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

In this book, Linda Colley recounts how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the Act of Union between England and Wales and Scotland in 1707. She describes how a succession of major wars with Catholic France, culminating in the conflict with Napoleon, served as both a threat and a tonic, forcing the diverse peoples of this Protestant culture into a closer union and reminding them of what they had in common. She also shows how their world-wide empire gave men and women from different ethnic and social backgrounds a powerful incentive to be British. In the process, she not only demonstrates how an over-arching British identity came to be superimposed onto much older regional and national identities but she also illuminates why it is that these same older identities - be it Scottishness or Welshness or Englishness or regionalism of one kind or another - have reemerged and become far more important in the late 20th century.

Britons

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The outbreaks of collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. Detailed studies abound--on the Levellers, the Diggers, fen rioters, food rioters, machinery riots, tithe riots, turnpike riots and so on. This book breaks new ground in that it attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare and contrast them, and to draw general conclusions.

Seventy-five maps are included in this volume, each with an accompanying commentary written by an authority on the particular subject. Taken together, the maps show how the distribution of protest changed over time, how particular forms of protest--riots connected with land, with food and with labor--altered as Britain developed from a predominantly feudal to a predominantly capitalist society.

An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain, 1549-1900

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Penny Lawne

First Princess of Wales

The story of the beautiful wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II.

Joan of Kent

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