What happened to the United Kingdom?
These isles have a long and winding history. Tribes and forts, languages and religions, immigrants and emigrants have all come and gone. But we’re told one thing will never change – this United Kingdom. But hasn’t it already gone through a change? From birth under a shared crown to adolescence sailing across the world capturing and taking to the twilight resting in the welfare state. What happened to the United Kingdom?
The United Kingdom in the eighteenth century had a shared identity underpinned by Presbyterianism, patriotism, and empire. The conception of the British empire was distinctly Scottish. We culturally and mechanically built the empire.