1. 5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity
Lecture 6: the Celtic Fringe

2. 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?

3. 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, (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, (1992)

4. Eisteddfod

5. ‘Blue Books’ controversy 1847 http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=295

6. George Washington Wilson, ‘Queen Victoria on 'Fyvie' with John Brown at Balmoral,’ [National Galleries of Scotland]

7. David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

8. Punch on Scotland ‘The Macmillion’, 29 May 1901

9. Punch on Ireland ‘The Fenian Pest,’ 3 March 1866