History & The Arts
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
...Spanish Succession (1702–13), the War of Austrian Succession (1740–48), the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), the American Revolutionary War (1775–83), and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815) played a key role in the ‘invention’ of a British national identity. France was not only a threat to the state; it also seemed to represent everything...