230208 From Legal Incorporation to the Government of Wales Act: Wales 1500 to the Present (S) (SoSe 2015)

Wales, whose subjection to England was completed by Henry VIII, used to be thought of, at least by the English, as just an appendage of England. 'England and Wales' has formed a composite administrative unit in a way that was never true for either Scotland or Ireland. Today, by contrast, Wales boasts its own national assembly with at least some powers of self-determination.
This seminar will chart the course of an increasing number of Welsh developing an awareness of themselves as a nation quite apart from the English, paying particular attention to developments taking place in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Introductory Reading:
Philip Jenkins: A History of Modern Wales: 1536-1990