A union of multiple identities : the British Isles, c.1750-c.1850

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A union of multiple identities : the British Isles, c.1750-c.1850

edited by Laurence Brockliss and David Eastwood

Manchester University Press, 1997

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-216) and index

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This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England which lasted into the twentieth century and is still felt today. Eschewing a narrow historiographical approach, the author examines a range of manuscript and published works and other material reflecting the gentry's interest in the past: pedigree rolls, antiquarian notebooks, heraldic displays and maps. The book provides a survey of the development of local history in England from its medieval origins to 1660. This is followed by chapters on the practicalities of local historical research: the national educational and institutional framework, the development of regional networks of local historians and the gentlemen who controlled access to their sources, and analysis of the source materials available. The final section features chapters on genealogy, didacticism and the physical world. -- .

Table of Contents

  • Institutional heterogeneity - the church, the law and the professions
  • the politics of nature and the nature of politics in the early-19th century
  • recasting our lot - Peel and the politics of interest
  • beguiled by France? the English aristocracy and cosmopolitanism
  • in the olden time - the Victorians and the Elizabethans
  • sentiment, race and revival - Scottish identities in the aftermath of teh Enlightenment
  • the rise and decline of Celtic Wales
  • integration or separation - hospitality and display in Protestant Ireland
  • O'Connell's ideology
  • nationalist mobilization and governmental attitudes - politics, religion and geography in 19th-century Ireland
  • liberalism denied - the British link and the dilemmas of reform in Hanover, c1760-1840
  • from dynastic union to unitary state - the European experience.

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