Name: イギリスとグレートブリテンの違いは？// Vlogmas 2019 10日目 (What's the difference between the United Kingdom and Great Britain? // Vlogmas 2019 Day 10)
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Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

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

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

you through why exactly we’re such a confusing country.

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

I'll leave a link in the description as well

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

We’ll start in the middle and then move outwards because that’s what conquering

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

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

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 him… although this could have been just

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

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

in the early 15th century. But… they 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 treated… like peasants who didn’t speak English. This was known as ‘The Kingdom

of England’ but we now say ‘England and Wales’ because even the government are trying

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, they’ve managed to hold their own and keep their traditions alive.

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

Another independent country that England ate and then… felt 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 became ‘King 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?

Yeah… it’s about to get more confusing.

The ‘United Kingdom’ was 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

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 and… was 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.

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

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

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

and hitting them over the head with sticks.

The Kingdom of Ireland was considered a client state of England (and then ‘Great Britain’

when Scotland was smushed with England). A ‘client state’ means 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

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)

It did however have its own laws, aristocracy and state church… the ‘Protestant Church

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

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

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