![]() ![]() This not only made it impossible to keep using “England” to mean “Britain” but also gave birth to the English question. ![]() The second is the rise of Scottish and Welsh nationalism, which won the smaller nations parliaments. The first was the loss of empire, which lent it its dominant tones: an elegiac sense of loss of past greatness and fury at power that has been wrongly snatched away. Although thanks to a combination of geography and religion English nationalism has been around since Henry VIII declared that “this realm of England is an empire” that didn’t have to bow to a foreign pope, in its modern form it has been forged by three great blows to the national psyche. ![]()
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