By Brendan Bradshaw
A lot that's stimulatingly contentious yet all is great. This paintings no longer basically reinterprets British heritage when it comes to the earlier interactions among 4 international locations, yet may have a true effect on how we predict of the current crises of British id, Britain and Europe and family members among England, eire and Scotland.' - Professor Bernard Crick
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And the Confederates were clearly fighting a bellum sociale, not a war of independence. 83 XII James VI and I failed substantially in his attempts to extend the union of crowns into a union of kingdoms, attempts which Jenny Wormald suggests in Chapter 7 may have been less fully developed than has been suggested hitherto. Yet all three kingdoms changed considerably as a result of the creation of a composite monarchy. There was now a recognised and authorised Scottish presence both in Ulster and in Munster.
As history was to show, the process of confessionalisation and assimilation set in motion by the Tudor Reformation and Revolution marked the first phase of a tortuous evolution through which the Archipelago's regional polities were resolved into a United Kingdom, governed unitarily by a Protestant British monarchy based in the English capital, London. And as history was also to show in the case of the Welsh and Irish peripheral dominions, the evolutionary process continued as it began. The integration of Wales within the unitary system THE ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH PROBLEM 43 proved to be unproblematical.
A twenty-seven-year 'tyranny' followed - only for the gladiatorial struggle to be resumed all over again in the Irish parliaments of the Early Stuarts. 8 42 THE BRITISH PROBLEM, c. 1534-1707 Finally, the contrasting response to the Revolution is manifested in the way in which humanist-inspired patriotic rhetoric came to be deployed in different ways in the two territories. In Wales, as already noted, the 'plenary Reformation' introduced by Henry VIII was eulogised as a signal expression of the special affection of the Tudors towards their '[native] country'.
