Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by
treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to
form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United
Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas
territorial expansion--a British Empire built on slavery. In his
new history, Victor Bulmer-Thomas charts the slow rise and rapid
decline of English imperialism at home, from the fourteenth century
to the present. When independence movements in the colonies began
challenging the British Empire, a Commonwealth was constructed to
hold together both former imperial possessions--including the Irish
Free State-- and the four nations of the internal empire. The
Commonwealth was later supplanted by the European Economic
Community, but Europe's potential as a long-term source of cohesion
for the UK was dashed when the English voted to leave the EU in
2016, dragging the whole UK with them. With Empire, Commonwealth
and Europe all gone, British unity is more fragile than ever.
Facing the prospect of an independent Scotland, a reunited Ireland
and an increasingly autonomous Wales, England may yet have to
acknowledge its forgotten history as an aggressive imperial force
on Britain's own, often unwilling, soil.
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