How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

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His investigative work on the wrongful convictions of Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry led to a campaign which eventually overturned the convictions of the so-called “Guildford Four” and “Maguire Seven” -- innocent Irishmen and women convicted of bombing offences on the basis on non-existent or unreliable “evidence.” Their stories eventually became the basis of the film, In the Name of the Father. a b c d "Modern slavery in the UK: March 2020". www.ons.gov.uk. Office for National Statistics. 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Secretariat, Bengal (India) (1894). The Gazetteer of Sikhim. Printed at the Bengal secretariat Press. Esler calls these people English nationalists, and so far in this piece I have too. His thesis is that the Conservative party, which has now remodelled itself in the image of UKIP, has taken the UK to the point where it faces three possible futures. The first option, to reinvent Britishness, is unlikely to succeed because the things that made Britain work in the past now no longer do. The second is a form of federalism with a written constitution – basically, a reworking of the ‘Home Rule All Round’ plans from the 1890s that would incorporate much of Salmond’s 2014 independence plan. The final option – doing nothing – may well be the most likely, given the incompetence of the current British government, but would lead to an even more divisive break-up of the UK. Already, he notes, ‘Johnson has done more in a few months to bring about a United Ireland than the IRA managed in three decades of bombings and shootings’. If denied indyref2, Scots will become ‘even more scunnered, thrawn and determined to seek a more extreme form of independence’. The Great Paradox of Brexit – that a mainly English whim to assert independence from the EU could lead to Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding independence from England itself – could soon be complete.

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Additionally, economists Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, in a pair of articles published in 2012 and 2013, found that, despite the Southern United States initially having per capita income roughly double that of the Northern United States in 1774, incomes in the South had declined 27% by 1800 and continued to decline over the next four decades, while the economies in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states vastly expanded. By 1840, per capita income in the South was well behind the Northeast and the national average (Note: this is also true in the early 21st century). [84] [85] Reiterating an observation made by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, [86] Thomas Sowell also notes that like in Brazil, the states where slavery in the United States was concentrated ended up poorer and less populous at the end of the slavery than the states that had abolished slavery in the United States. [80] a b David A. E. Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century (1995) Esler presents a strong argument for claiming that nationalism is behind the current surge in the direction of both Northern Irish and Scots wanting independence (and arguably Welsh too). But it isn't their nationalism he's talking about: it's English nationalism. He's absolutely on the nail here. The English have never given up their colonial instincts and superior elitism. We like to pretend we're the fairest, most welcoming, tolerant and non-judgemental of people. The truth is, we're anything but those things and we've always told ourselves these lies. Esler points out that this extends as far as using the term 'British'. There's nothing British about being British. We mean English almost every single time and the other nations are, understandably, getting annoyed about it. Who can blame them when we have such abhorrent extremist behaviours which are now so commonplace white English people don't bother to hide it much any longer? We really don't represent who the Scots, Welsh or Irish are. We never have.

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Methodology: Prevalence". www.globalslaveryindex.org. Global Slavery Index. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. This was an era for enacting great social change, the Age of Reason, ushered in by the Enlightenment which brought together philosophies which catapulted social injustices to the forefront of people’s minds. Europe was experiencing great upheaval: the French Revolution had brought with it ideas of the equal rights of man and challenged the previously accepted social hierarchies. This book draws heavily on the context, history, and outcomes of the two referenda (Indy Ref 1, and Brexit). It does a lot more than this as well.

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Wright, Gavin (Summer 1987). "The Economic Revolution in the American South". The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 1 (1): 161–178. doi: 10.1257/jep.1.1.161. JSTOR 1942954.Gavin Esler’s “How Britain Ends” is a highly readable account of the UK’s deep political problems. I often hear it said that the U.K. is heading for a constitutional crisis. Indeed as I learnt from this book, the U.K. doesn’t even have a written constitution unlike every other major democracy in the world. While the country has muddled through for hundreds of years without one, Scotland’s push for IndyRef2, English nationalism, Brexit, and the recovery from coronavirus, could well push its political system to the brink. As Esler explains, wide ranging reforms at the highest level will be needed if the U.K. is to survive in its current (albeit fractured) whole. Thompson, Sir Edward Maunde (1904). Chronicon Adae de Usk, A.D. 1377-1421. H.Frowde. p.237 . Retrieved 24 March 2022– via archive.org.

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Lord Henley LC said in Shanley v. Harvey (1763) 2 Eden 126, 127 that as "soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free". Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations". www.dango.bham.ac.uk . Retrieved 11 October 2016. Dresser, Madge; Hann, Andrew. (2013). Slavery and the British country house. English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-84802-064-1. OCLC 796755629.

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Mottier, Veronique; etal. (25 November 2019). Slavery Inquiry Report, Jesus College Cambridge. Jesus College, University of Cambridge. OCLC 1142429215. Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past". HoustonChronicle.com. 19 June 2020 . Retrieved 23 June 2020.

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In recent years, several institutions have begun to evaluate their own links with slavery. For instance, English Heritage produced a book on the extensive links between slavery and British country houses in 2013, Jesus College has a working group to examine the legacy of slavery within the college, and the Church of England, the Bank of England, Lloyd's of London and Greene King have all apologised for their historic links to slavery. [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] A functioning democracy requires the prospect of alternation in government, but the parties of English and Scottish nationalism have carved up large tranches of the British Labour vote between them, effectively transforming the UK and Scotland, for the moment at least, into single-party monopolies. Of course, the SNP – whose populism is more restrained – has not joined the Tories in demonising the ­judiciary and civil service. But what if its plans for a second independence referendum are thwarted by the courts, and the civil service takes fright? Although the rampant nationalisms of England and Scotland most obviously threaten the existence of the Union, the liberal fibre of our ­institutions is also at stake. Historians and economists have debated the economic effects of slavery for Great Britain and the North American colonies. Some analysts, such as Eric Williams, suggest that it allowed the formation of capital that financed the Industrial Revolution, [78] although the evidence is inconclusive. Slave labour was integral to early settlement of the colonies, which needed more people for labour and other work. Also, slave labour produced the major consumer goods that were the basis of world trade during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: coffee, cotton, rum, sugar, and tobacco. Slavery was far more important to the profitability of plantations and the economy in the American South; and the slave trade and associated businesses were important to both New York and New England. [79]I really am fascinated by the opening third of this book that holds a mirror up to the UK and how out of balance the country is from nation to nation. The analysis of London vs. the rest of England was exceptional. The impact of this new European social conscience and self-awareness also impacted enslaved communities who had always put up resistance but now felt emboldened to claim their rights. Toussaint Louverture leading the revolt in Haiti was not the only example of such a stirring of feelings; revolts in other locations followed including Barbados in 1816, Demerara in 1822 and Jamaica in 1831. Toussaint Louverture: In Saint-Domingue I led the fight for our freedom from French oppression and enslavement, but also for the recognition that we were equal to the Europeans. Our struggle inspired others around the world that they too could be free from the slave trade and colonial control. Meanwhile whilst the apprenticeships were enforced, peaceful protests by those affected would continue until their freedom was secured. By 1st August 1838 this was finally achieved with full legal emancipation granted. An estranged English nationalism found its voice in the Brexit referendum of 2016, but the campaign also gave expression to some of its Anglo-British ambiguities. Although the Daily Mail famously asked “Who will speak for England?”, what is striking is that the campaign was framed predominantly in British terms.