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1 giorno fa · The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
1 giorno fa · United Kingdom. Also known as: Britain, Great Britain, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Written by. William A. Chaney. George McKendree Steele Professor Emeritus of Western Culture, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. Author of The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England. William A. Chaney,
3 giorni fa · History of England - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Prehistory. Roman Britain. Anglo-Saxon period. Norman England. England under the Plantagenets. Tudor England. 17th century. Formation of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Modern England, 18th–19th centuries. 20th and 21st centuries. See also. References. Sources. Further reading.
2 giorni fa · England. England’s topography is low in elevation but, except in the east, rarely flat. Much of it consists of rolling hillsides, with the highest elevations found in the north, northwest, and southwest. This landscape is based on complex underlying structures that form intricate patterns on England’s geologic map.
3 giorni fa · The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. [9] The English identity began with the Anglo-Saxons, when they were known as the Angelcynn, meaning race or tribe of the Angles.
1 giorno fa · The term Great Britain, which this article uses as a geographic designation, is often used as a synonym for the United Kingdom, a political entity that includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and that was once part of the British Empire.
4 giorni fa · Similarly, although the ‘colonial state’ enjoyed a starring moment in imperial and colonial historiography a couple of decades ago, the British state – while like ideology clearly an essential presence in much writing about British imperialism – has, as Andrew Thompson argues, been surprisingly neglected by historians of empire as a subject in its own right.
