Loyalty, Locality and the Nation

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In the eighteenth century, new concepts of national identity began emerging. In the process long established local identities were challenged. And nowhere was that more true than Britain. This course explores those challenges, asking just what was meant by the idea of the nation?

Date created:

2013-10-09 13:18

Tutor:

Kate Watson

Subjects:

British history, English history, Modern history 1700-1799

Keywords:

18th century, Georgian Britain, Nationhood

Course type:

Weekly class

Course: Further details, online booking

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	One of three contemporary caricatures (cartoons) shown here offering satirical insights into the American conflict. In this print America...	Kate Watson	view
	The second of three cartoons on Britain and the American Revolution This cartoon has a very different tone from the previous one. It shows...	Kate Watson	view
	The third of three cartoons on Britain and the American revolutionary movement This print also takes a Tory approach to the conflict, in...	Kate Watson	view
Free-born Britons in America? Connecticut Resolutions, 1765	Contemporary American documents from: The Avalon Project, Yale Law School These extracts give us a great insight into the mindset of...	Kate Watson	view
A Nation in Embryo? Paine on Freedom & Tyranny	These extracts, from the first in a series of pamphlets written by Thomas Paine between 1776 and 1783, really illustrate Paine's political...	Kate Watson	view
Nation Making, French Revolutionary Style: What is the Third Estate?	These extracts, from one of the key early pamphlets of the French Revolution, represent one of the first attempts to define the nation in a modern...	Kate Watson	view
	Over 200 years on the Revolution continues to influence and impact most notably in our conception of the modern nation-state - as can clearly be...	Kate Watson	view
A Nation in Danger? The New World fears for the Old	The theme of the potential dangers of a second wave revolution was also picked up on in America – whose own revolution was far more consistently...	Kate Watson	view
Burke the Prophet?: Reflections on the French Revolution	Interestingly it was Burke however who was the first to go public with his fears, in 1790. And his early warning of the dangers of French...	Kate Watson	view
	In this remarkable cartoon, published weeks before the collapse of constitutional monarchy in France, King George III is shown examining a...	Kate Watson	view
	Infamous and striking print by English artist, James Gillray. It portrays the September Massacres, 1792, which heralded the beginning of the...	Kate Watson	view
Nationalism: A Brief Exploration	A brief guide to Nationalism: some key themes and issues	Kate Watson	view
Tom Paine	Essay on Thomas Paine and his legacy (BBC)		view
Edmund Burke	Radio Broadcast on Edmund Burke and his legacy (BBC Radio)		view
French Declaration of Rights of Man	French Declaration of Rights (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)		view
Declaration of Independence	American Declaration of Independence (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)		view
James Gillray Collection	French National Library collection with over 40 images of Gillray caricatures related to the French Revolution.		view
Gillray Biog	Relatively short but useful pocket biography of James Gillray, one of Britain's greatest ever socio-political caricaturists, with some insightful...		view
Liberty, Licentiousness & the Law	Extracts from a Charge to a Grand Jury in 1792, illustrating the wide ranging cultural effects of French Terror - and indeed British anti-Terror...	Kate Watson	view
The State of Local Government	A brief overview of Local Government and its Idiosyncrasies	Kate Watson	view
Government & the Fear of 'French Principles'	A brief extract from am inter-governmental letter illustrating early British fears about the potential appeal of French-style radicalism	Kate Watson	view
Anti-Terror Measures & Parliamentary Concerns	An extract from a House of Commons speech by an M.P. offering critical observations on government anti-Terror measures - note the ironic...	Kate Watson	view
Volunteer Songs	An extract from a Local Volunteer song, clearly designed to whip up patriotic support.	Kate Watson	view
Loyalty & its Limits?	Two documents relating to Local Volunteer movements during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Period. Note the highly localised nature of these...	Kate Watson	view
Local Government & Volunteering	Two documents related to Local Government and its role in Volunteer movements, both from Birmingham - something of a hot bed of local politics...	Kate Watson	view
Central Government & Volunteering	Extracts from government correspondence discussing the potential, and indeed pitfalls, of local volunteer initatives. Note the central dilemma the...	Kate Watson	view
The Volunteer Movement Generally	An excellent article on Volunteer Movements in England throughout the period , by J.E. Cookson, which originally appeared in the Historical...		view
Wilkes & The Power of Words	The emerging power of the press, and the media generally, really began to show itself however in the 1760s, thanks to the work of this man –...	Kate Watson	view
	The print shown here, The World Turned Upside Down, comes from the English Civil War period and is a good early example of political comment in...	Kate Watson	view
	This Gillray print is one of many which satirised the King in the 1790s, on this occasion rather mockingly referrring to his widely imagined...	Kate Watson	view
The Local Press	These extracts from the Hampshire Chronicle illustrate the sheer range of interests to be found at times in the local press, from grand national...	Kate Watson	view
British Caricatures & the French Revolution	This link takes you to an excellent French website with a wide selection of English caricatures of the French Revolution including several by...		view
Pamphlets & Hannah More	Hannah More was one of the leading contributors to the loyalist pamphlet campaign of the 1790s. This document contains an image of the front cover...	Kate Watson	view
Pamphlets & Local Identity	Whilst many loyalist pamphlets made a general appeal to loyalty on the grounds of nationalism or patriotism, others specifically made use of local...	Kate Watson	view
Pamphlets & Patriotism	Loyalist propaganda was carefully targeted at times to appeal to specific groups or interests. In these two examples History & Gender appear...	Kate Watson	view
The London Corresponding Society	Unsurprisingly the Paineite London Corresponding Society came under frequent attack for its allegedly radical aims. Here we see one of...	Kate Watson	view
Contemporary Views on Paine	And here two contrasting contemporary views on Paine, from very different ends of the political spectrum.	Kate Watson	view
Paineite Radicalism	Publication of Paine’s Rights of Man in 1791, in response to Burke’s Reflections, compounded the general sense of unease a notch more, as Paine’s...	Kate Watson	view
	The royal family was far from revered for much of the Georgian period, as epitomised here in this satire on the (temporary) reconciliation of the...	Kate Watson	view
The Regency Debate	Concerns about the King’s sanity had long surrounded George III and led to fierce rivalry between the pro and anti King factions, including...	Kate Watson	view

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