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- 2. The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe. They
- 4. CONSTITUENT COUNTRIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES The British Isles comprise Great Britain, Ireland, and a number
- 5. THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy
- 6. British Isles / UK / Britain / England
- 7. THE UNION JACK The Union Flag (also known as the Union Jack) is the national flag
- 8. ENGLAND England the largest & most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
- 9. SCOTLAND Scotland is one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
- 10. WALES Wales is one of four constituent countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
- 11. THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND The Republic of Ireland is a member of the European Union. Capital:
- 12. NORTHERN IRELAND Northern Ireland – The Irish province of Ulster remains occupied as Northern Ireland, still
- 13. Britannia Insulae Est
- 14. From Shakespeare’s Richard III : This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself
- 15. Geographic Providence - England is an island Insularity Relative peace & security Ethnic, linguistic, religious .
- 16. TRADITION PERMEATES BRITISH POLITICS The Opening of Parliament – Black Rod & the Slammed Door Pageantry,
- 17. Members of House of Commons are each year summoned to Lord’s Chamber to dutifully hear the
- 18. “Queen’s Speech from the Throne” NOT her speech! She did not write it She may not
- 19. Parliament vs. the Monarch A bit of background . . . .
- 20. House of Commons, 1642 King Charles I led troops into Commons to arrest 5 leading dissident
- 21. A yearly drama reminding Britons of where Power resides . . . King ? or Commons?
- 24. What’s the symbolism?
- 25. Traditions, Rituals, Ceremony, and Pageantry reinforce the dignity of government legitimize government by evoking historical memories
- 26. Prehistoric to 1000 yrs ago Earliest Britain Celtic Britain (arrive 500 BC) Romano-Celtic Britannia (43 AD
- 27. Celtic Britain: Britons Scots Welsh Irish Cornish
- 28. Celtic tribes of Britain
- 29. Celtic Britain
- 30. Anglo-Saxon Britain feudal aristocracy - weak kings Post Roman reality - memory of central govt and
- 32. The Lord's Prayer in Olde English Matthew 6:9-13 Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; Father
- 34. Norman England Norman Conquest William the . . . . unofficial heir 1066 battle of Hastings
- 35. Norman England Norman Conquest brought Wm's own nobility & a plan to organize & govern England
- 36. Norman England and so political stability & centralization were brought to England relatively early: earlier than
- 38. Norman Reforms Magna Carta 1215 – explicit protection of feudal customs, rights, and law Rule of
- 39. Common Law Prior to Norman Conquest,1066, justice was administered primarily by county courts Courts were presided
- 40. Common Law By 1150s Henry II began sending judges from his own central court to hear
- 41. Magna Carta of 1215 King John recognized it as a right of his subjects “to have
- 43. Consequences of Common Law conflict of King w/ church most famously with Thomas á Becket, Archbishop
- 44. Wales Edward I brings Wales under British sovereignty in 1283 Prince of Wales
- 45. Sovereignty power was still largely in the hands of the Monarchy who ruled by divine right
- 47. * Parliament’s power got a major boost during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) when Henry
- 48. Protestant Reformation Henry VIII Break w/ Rome Elizabeth I 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada Colonization
- 49. Good Queen Bess Elizabeth I
- 50. Eventually the tensions b/n the institutions boiled over, as the efforts of the Stuarts (Charles I
- 51. Charles I (1625-1649) English Civil War (1642-48) "who should rule the country?" Parliamentarians vs. Royalists
- 52. Parliamentarians Puritans – Roundheads House of Commons Merchant class Oliver Cromwell New Model Army Royalists Aristocratic,
- 54. Charles I beheaded by Parliament
- 55. The Glorious Revolution 1689 James II ousted Parliament invites William & Mary to the throne Bill
- 56. The English Bill of Rights To prevent abuse of power by William & Mary and all
- 57. This document, the English Bill of Rights, prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the
- 58. Political Reform 19th Century Industrialization Population shifts Inequities exploitation Dickens’ Novels riots in 1819 led the
- 61. Representation of the People Act 1832, commonly known as the Reform Act 1832 ,
- 62. The Great Reform Act of 1832 Began 1760 as reaction to supposed autocratic policies of the
- 64. Industrial Era start of the modern party-political system Liberally-minded Whigs gradually organised themselves into the Liberal
- 65. In The Tree of Corruption from 1831, caricaturist H. H. Heath depicts hacking away the old
- 66. The Great Reform Act of 1832 Removed Rotten Burroughs / Pocket Burroughs disenfranchised 56 boroughs in
- 67. The Great Reform Act of 1832 created a uniform franchise in the boroughs, giving the vote
- 68. 2nd Reform Act 1867 2X electorate to 16% of pop. 3rd Reform Act 1884 nearly universal
- 69. When the Houses of Parliament burnt down in 1834, Queen Adelaide openly spoke of it being
- 70. Political Reform 20th Century 1900 – Labour Party speaks for the working class & socialist reforms
- 71. Women’s suffrage Emmiline Pankhurst, suffragette leader, used arson and window smashing to further their cause -
- 72. Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested in 1914
- 73. 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 yrs old the vote if
- 74. WWII & Churchill
- 76. WWII & Post-War Britain 1939-45 World War II 1945 – Labour takes power the beginning of
- 79. PM Margaret Thatcher - Conservative Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990
- 80. PM Tony Blair – New Labour Prime Minister 1990 - 2007
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