5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity Lecture 6: the Celtic Fringe
Structure of the lecture key issues in the historiography the state of the nation development of national consciousness? development of nationalism? Is the ‘Celtic Fringe’ the right way of addressing the question?
Historiographical trends Whig interpretation = English constitutional history Nation states and ethnic homogeneity Calls for a new ‘British’ history in the 1960s Michael Hechter, Internal Colonialism: the Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (1975) ‘Four Nations’ history – Hugh Kearney, The British Isles: a History of Four Nations (1989) Nations as ‘Imagined communities’ – Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (1992)
Eisteddfod
‘Blue Books’ controversy 1847 http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=295
George Washington Wilson, ‘Queen Victoria on 'Fyvie' with John Brown at Balmoral,’ 1863 [National Galleries of Scotland]
David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
Punch on Scotland ‘The Macmillion’, 29 May 1901
Punch on Ireland ‘The Fenian Pest,’ 3 March 1866