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  • Hello lovely people,

  • If youre new here, hi, I’m Jessica. I’m British and I live in the United Kingdom and,

  • even if you do too, you might not know the difference so today I’m going to be running

  • you through why exactly were such a confusing country.

  • - [cough] Religion [cough]

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  • That is a delightful picure of my wife and I

  • I love them!

  • Today I’ll be aided by this helpful graphic from Wikimedia

  • YEah

  • I'll leave a link in the description as well

  • Thank you

  • That was meant to make it look less confusing for you, not more.

  • Well start in the middle and then move outwards because that’s what conquering

  • invaders do and that’s how this whole mess was created

  • - I feel guilty already.

  • This is England. It used to be a number of countries but around the 10th century they

  • realised that was a bit much and also there was a guy called Æthelstan who was great

  • at organising stuff and not dying long enough to make a difference.

  • This is Wales. Although it is its own country with its own flag and language and traditions,

  • England has always enjoyed pretending it isn’t and, like a much larger sibling, can be quite

  • a bully about it.

  • Remarkably, despite centuries of oppression, Welsh people managed to retain

  • some of their national identity, which had first emerged after the Romans withdrew in

  • the 5th century. At one time Wales had its own Kings and they even vaguely liked Æthelstan

  • (him again) because they chose to pay tribute to himalthough this could have been just

  • so he would stop getting people to smack them over the head with sticks. The history books

  • are unclear.

  • Wales was first conquered by England in 1282 by Edward I but independence was briefly restored

  • in the early 15th century. Butthey were annexed and incorporated within the English

  • legal system under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 thanks to Henry VIII, who was

  • himself partly Welsh and yes, was the one who had six wives. At the time bringing English

  • law to Wales was received well by Welsh gentry, who already spoke English and wanted to be

  • treated equally in law with English citizens, and not hugely well by Welsh peasants, who

  • were treatedlike peasants who didn’t speak English. This was known asThe Kingdom

  • of Englandbut we now sayEngland and Walesbecause even the government are trying

  • to be better people.

  • Many horrible things happened to Wales and to Welsh people in an attempt to crush down

  • their distinctive culture and language but admirably, with a population of currently

  • only around 3 million, theyve managed to hold their own and keep their traditions alive.

  • No thanks to the English.

  • - youre going to hear that a lot.

  • English people have a lot of guilt.

  • We then move on to the third country that makes up Great Britain: Scotland.

  • Another independent country that England ate and thenfelt mildly bad about. But not

  • bad enough to actually let it go and do its own thing.

  • Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in around the 5th century and continued

  • to be such, often going to war with England, until the early 18th century because a hundred

  • years prior the English Queen had died without children and was thus succeeded by her Scottish

  • cousin (see my Mary Queen of Scots video for more on that- link in the card above) meaning

  • the monarchs becameKing of England and Scotland’. They only kept this up for a

  • bit because it was confusing having two different countries to rule and the English government

  • like to take things that aren’t theirs. Scotland entering into this political union

  • in 1707 created the new Kingdom of Great Britain.

  • - That’s the centre bit of this diagram.

  • There we go: ‘Great Britain’. GB. That wasn’t so hard, right?

  • Is just that one island!

  • Yeahit’s about to get more confusing.

  • TheUnited Kingdomwas created in 1801 when the aforementioned Great Britain entered

  • into a political union with the Kingdom of Ireland. Now, Ireland the island (yes the

  • whole thing) was already a Kingdom of the English Monarch, much like Scotland, but from

  • even earlier

  • King Henry II of England had invaded Ireland and given the section of it he won to his

  • son John in 1177. John was the Lord of Ireland andwas also a 10-year-old. When John succeeded

  • to the English throne in 1199, he remained Lord of Ireland thereby bringing the kingdom

  • of England and the lordship of Ireland into union. Not that the Irish were very happy

  • about it. Although the island was supposed to be ruled by the English monarch from the

  • mid 13th century the area they controlled shrank drastically because they were too scared

  • to actually go over there to do something about it.

  • Didn’t stop them taxing everyone

  • though. At the end of the 14th century King Richard II went to go sort it out but lost

  • his English throne in the process and that was the last time a medieval king of England

  • visited Ireland.

  • Smart move.

  • In 1542, King Henry VIII of England (yes, him again with the wives),

  • was made King of Ireland and the

  • English began establishing control over the island by confiscating land from Irish people

  • and hitting them over the head with sticks.

  • - history is so friendly

  • The Kingdom of Ireland was considered a client state of England (and thenGreat Britain

  • when Scotland was smushed with England). A ‘client statemeans a state that is economically,

  • politically, or militarily subordinate to another more powerful state in international

  • affairs. Basically everyone under England.

  • Sorry. There will be some others popping up

  • so keep that in mind.

  • It was ruled by the monarch of Great Britain via a viceroy, who ruled in their stead (basically

  • saying whatever the monarch told him to say)

  • - and it was always a ‘him’.

  • It did however have its own laws, aristocracy and state churchtheProtestant Church

  • of Ireland’.

  • Which wasn’t great since most of the population were Catholic. This was the cause of many

  • wars that broke out since not only is it pretty awful when someone comes, takes over your

  • country and tells you what to do, it’s particularly awful if they bring religion into it. Catholics

  • were officially discriminated against in the Kingdom of Ireland which lead to several violent

  • conflicts.

  • In 1800 the Parliament of Ireland passed

  • the Acts of Union by which it abolished itself and the Kingdom, instead establishing the

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the first day of 1801.

  • So there you go. The United Kingdom. Both of these Islands, plus all these other little ones

  • 6,000 islands!

  • minus the Isle of Man (the tiny island in the middle that likes to do its own thing-

  • but well get to that in a minute), became one thing: United.

  • - [awkward beat]

  • Except not really because that’s not how history works! Or geography. Or anthropology.

  • You can’t just hit someone on the head with a stick and expect that theyll then willingly

  • do whatever you say forever.

  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland lasted from 1801 until 1921 and was marked

  • by a period of rapid industrialisation and expansion for the British empire where it

  • became the foremost world power. My parents used to spend their geography classes in primary

  • school colouring a quarter of the world in pink apparently.

  • - my parents weren’t born before 1920, the school system in Britain is just incredibly

  • slow to change.

  • However, the British weren’t great when it came to looking after their own subjects

  • as shown by the Great Irish Famine from 1845 to 1849 when around a million people died

  • and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island’s population to fall

  • by 25%. The famine was exacerbated by government inaction and lead to an increase in desire

  • for Irish self-governance and eventually the Irish War of Independence, which resulted

  • in most of Ireland seceding from the Union and forming the Irish Free State in 1922.

  • Why not all of Ireland? Wellthat’s a long and complex issue that someone more qualified

  • than me will be happy to explain to you in another video.

  • Find an Irish person.

  • But to cut short an incredibly lengthy explanation: This top bit of the island to the left is

  • calledNorthern Islandand the bottom, larger part is the Republic of Ireland. And

  • this means that the United Kingdom was renamedThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and

  • Northern Islandin 1927.

  • Although, this long title is rarely used and instead we tend to refer to our

  • country-that-is-actually-a-number-of-countries

  • asThe UK’.

  • So in summary:

  • Great Britain is the island on the right, it’s made up of England, Wales and Scotland.

  • Ireland is the island on the left, it’s made up of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

  • The United Kingdom is the political unit of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

  • The British Islands are The United Kingdom plus three tiny islands:

  • The Isle of Man, which is a self governing British crown dependency of around 80,000

  • people between the island of Ireland and the island of Great Britain, and-

  • - fun fact! In 1881 the Isle of Man’s parliament became the first national legislative body

  • in the world to give women the right to vote in a general election... although they excluded

  • married women.

  • Jersey, another small island and British crown dependency- but slightly bigger with just

  • over 100,000 people and a LOT closer to France than it is to the British mainland.

  • And Guernsey, 60,000 people who are only marginally further away from France.

  • The three islands (along with Sark and Alderney but theyre both really small) are, again,

  • not part of the UK, even though theyre British.

  • TheBritish Islesis a collective term used for Great Britain, Ireland and the over

  • 6,000 small islands surrounding them.

  • And to anyone from the Republic of Ireland who is offended by the inclusion of Ireland

  • the island in the British Isles… I see your pain but also: the islands are grouped together.

  • Granted, ‘British Islesis itself an antiquated colonial term that should have

  • ceased to apply to Ireland once it withdrew from the Act of Union in 1922 but yet, like

  • many things from the British empire- The Union Jack, afternoon tea, racism and general warmth

  • towards the Queen-

  • - one of these things is not like the other.

  • It continues.

  • The wordBritishis the issue because, although it can be used to describe all of

  • the islands and countries that sit within English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish sovereignty

  • The Republic of Ireland is not within Great Britain

  • Which is calledGreat Britainbecause during the Middle Ages the name Britain was

  • also applied to a small part of France (because the King of England was actually French) that

  • is now known as Brittany. As a resultGreat Britaincame into use in reference specifically

  • to the bigger island bit.

  • By the way, I’m posting this before the UK election on the 12th December 2019 and

  • Scottish independence has been a hot topic so maybe by the time youre watching this

  • the UK looks different

  • I really hope youve enjoyed this video. It was surprisingly hard to talk through whilst

  • attempting not to offend anyone.

  • Does the area you live in have any interesting naming quirks you want to explain? Are you

  • Are you Dutch?

  • - I feel like my geography classes lied to me about the difference between Holland and

  • The Netherlands.

  • Thank you for watching and I’ll see you in my next video!

  • That's just my face.

  • [Clara laughs after successfully winding Jessica up]

  • Clara: I'm looking forward to learning about the difference which I clearly don't know...

  • Ok

  • Clara: off I go

  • Bye friend!

  • Clara: byeee

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