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Wales and in a large part Ireland were conquered long before British Empire was a thing, though.
by wqaatwt 1y ago
Wales and in a large part Ireland were conquered long before British Empire was a thing, though.
- protocolture 1y agoThe correct labels werent yet applied it doesnt count! Bear in mind that a lot of the bad policies only started to be repealed in like the 60s. And that among other things, both suffered through a lot of the forced cultural assimilation the british empire was peddling.
- wqaatwt 1y agoWell yes, because medieval England or England in the 1500s was in many ways a fundamentally different state than the United Kingdom was in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.