The first decades were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at Culloden in 1746. In 1763, victory in the Seven Years War led to the dominance of the British Empire, which was to be the foremost global power for over a century and grew to become the largest empire in history. As a result, the culture of the United Kingdom, and its industrial, political, constitutional, educational and linguistic influence, became worldwide.
Addressing the rumors, he said, “I have the internet and I have seen the various rumors about Captain Britain and that would be loads of fun to do a cool, modernized version of that — like the way they modernized Captain America.
But the poison of modern identity politics risks undermining all of this. Much of the “anti-racist” activity in modern Britain is inspired by the “radical progressivism” that has taken root across the pond in the United States.
But the poison of modern identity politics risks undermining all of this. Much of the “anti-racist” activity in modern Britain is inspired by the “radical progressivism” that has taken root across the pond in the United States.
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Within this vein of work, one can construct an alternative twentieth century in which Britain was wholly part of the mainstream of modern composition rather than, as it largely was in fact, something of a backwater, at least until the seventies.
Reform had decked out the arena with a vignette of how it sees modern Britain – a broken-down pub, rubbish on the streets, a dilapidated bus stop and a road strewn with potholes.
It is here, on the outskirts of the University of Bath’s main campus, flanked on one side by fields and on the other a disused modern pentathlon shooting range, that MattWeston and Marcus Wyatt have made a mockery of Britain’s climatic handicap.
Patriotism gets a bad rap in modern Britain ... in a speech at the 2006Fabian Society conference, he foresaw the risks that the lack of a confident and coherent British identity posed to the union and Britain’s place in Europe.
The 73-year-old, from Longridge, said she had been motivated by her own mother's experience of poverty back in the 1950s and her disgust at the fact that some parents are facing exactly the same struggles in modern-day Britain ... .
The king has been open about his desire to demonstrate that the monarchy still has a role to play as a symbol of unity and tradition in the sometimes fractious, multicultural nation that is 21st-century Britain.
Meanwhile, adoption – which, she says, Britain has long had “a huge heart” and “huge propensity” for – is proving a hard sell for modern prospective parents.
Meanwhile, adoption – which, she says, Britain has long had “a huge heart” and “huge propensity” for – is proving a hard sell for modern prospective parents ... In Britain, the live birth rate for IVF has tripled for women under 38 since the early 1990s.
"The funding will be invested in advanced technologies so that Britain's armed forces have the tools they need to compete and win in modern warfare," the UK MOD said in a statement ... ....