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

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From before Roman times, slavery was prevalent in Britain, with indigenous Britons being routinely exported. [18] [19] Following the Roman conquest of Britain, slavery was expanded and industrialised. [20] 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. Pijper, Frederik (1909). "The Christian Church and Slavery in the Middle Ages". The American Historical Review. American Historical Association. 14 (4): 681. doi: 10.1086/ahr/14.4.675. JSTOR 1837055. I've been (almost obsessively) thinking about about all the things Gavin Esler writes about in this book for a long while. I guess those things can be summed up in one question: what is wrong with the UK? a b David A. E. Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century (1995)

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Britishness, Henderson and Wyn Jones conclude, does not mean the same thing in England, Scotland and Wales. Those in England who are most explicitly nationalist about the British state are those whose identity is English, not – as we might expect – those who identify as British. Overt Britishness in England is, it transpires, a more liberal phenomenon, largely unrelated to Britishness in Scotland and Wales, which aligns more closely with the values of English nationalists.Taylor, Michael. "The British West India interest and its allies, 1823–1833." English Historical Review 133.565 (2018): 1478-1511. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey336

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That started to change in 2014 though with the Scottish Independence Referendum and it was won narrowly by those wishing to remain a part of the Union. Part of what helped that was the promise that the UK would remain part of the EU. Two years later, partly as a response to the rise of UKIP in local elections and to placate a section of the Conservative party that had lurched to the right, the Prime Minister of the time called a Referendum about our place in the EU. We voted to leave by the narrow margin of 52% versus 48% and from that moment on the union was under threat. In Esler’s eyes, this was the point where the rise of English nationalism became a real threat to the union rather than just a low-level concern. Very eye opening to hear specifically what parts of the UK think about the union and the book presents a sympathetic take.In 2006, the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, expressed his deep sorrow over the slave trade, which he described as "profoundly shameful". [92] Some campaigners had demanded reparations from the former slave trading nations. [93] In the coming years, many people will be writing about the end of the UK. They'll all quote this wonderful and curiously moving book. I know I will The best bit of Gavin Esler’s latest book is when he gets to grips with Shakespeare. The thesis of How Britain Ends is that it’s Brexit-fuelled English nationalism, rather than the SNP, that will consign what Gordon Brown last month called ‘the world’s most successful experiment in multinational living’ to the rubbish bin of history. You can’t talk about English nationalism without at some stage coming across that speech from Richard II, Act II – you know, the one about ‘this happy breed of men’, ‘this sceptred isle’, ‘this fortress built by Nature for herself against infection’ (ouch), ‘this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England’ – and Esler’s analysis of it is one of the highlights of his book. Very thought-provoking and timely. The possible break up of the Union is a story that will dominate the news agenda for the next few years at the very least.

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