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 Chapter 5: United Kingdom?
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"What is Britain?" - Guardian Unlimited Special Report: a collection of online articles on a great variety of subjects, e.g. "Twilight of the Gaels as ancient tongue falls silent", or "Better education making us nation of liberals" and "Wales: an apology" |
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"What makes something British?" (teaching resource provided by Professor Alan Durant, University of Middlesex, on behalf of the British Council's international magazine, British Studies Now (ten criteria are offered, together with definitions; students discuss their ratings of how relevant these criteria are for "Britishness") |
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Uniting the Kingdoms (1066 - 1603): "How the many kingdoms in Britain and Ireland were conquered and ruled by the French; how some fought back; and how the Welsh, Irish, Scots and English ended up with only one (Scottish) king among them." (A Public Record Office exhibition) |
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"Looking into England": English identities in the context of UK devolution (from the British Council's magazine British Studies Now) |
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The Scottish Parliament |
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Devolution in Scotland (Guardian special report) |
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"One Scotland. Many cultures." - Anti-racism site (history of migration to Scotland, experiences of groups of people living there, and future demographic change; origins of racism/its impact on people’s lives) |
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Wir Ain Leid - Our Own Language / An Innin Tae Modren Scots - An Introduction to Modern Scots |
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The Highland Clearances |
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Scottish Sites of Interest |
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National Assembly for Wales |
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Devolution in Wales (Guardian special report) |
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Ymgyrchu! Social and political campaigning in Wales during the twentieth century (digitised images of original documents, photographs, sound and video files/National Library of Wales) |
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The Queen and Devolved Adminstrations (incl. links to opening speeches/Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament, in PDF format) |
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Visit Wales: "Be Inspired by Wales" - a site about tourist attractions and cultural highlights |
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The Castles of Wales |
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A Welsh Course |
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Wales: National Eisteddfod |
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Northern Ireland Assembly: Portraits of Speakers and updates about the state of the suspended and dissolved assembly (Oct 2002/April 2003) |
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Northern Ireland (Guardian special report) |
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Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2003: "Election campaign gathers pace" (BBC) |
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Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 1998 |
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CAIN Conflict Archive on the Internet (Northern Ireland) |
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Republican voted in as Belfast mayor (The Scotsman, 6 June 2002) |
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UK Elections: Britain may never be the same again (The Guardian, Thursday May 13, 1999) [R] |
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Power in the parallel universe: Patten and Dewar prove that there is life beyond Westminster (The Guardian on devolution, Saturday May 15, 1999) [R] |
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