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The English government and lowland Scots defeated the highland army of Charles Edwards.
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For the first time allows written records of its debates to be published freely
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The separate Irish Parliament is closed and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is formed
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- Britain became the world’s foremost economic power.
- The British came to see themselves as having a duty to spread this culture and civilization around the world.
- There were great changes in social structure. Most people now lived in towns and cities. (They no longer depended on country landowners for their living but rather on the owners of industries.)
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-Middle-class religious conviction, together with a belief that reform
was better than revolution, allowed reforms in public life. Some of
them were:
-Slavery and the laws against people on the basis of religion
were abolished.
-Laws were made to protect workers from some of the worst
excesses of the industrial mode of production.
-Public services such as the post and the police were begun. -
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- the urban working class (the majority o f the population) finally began to make its voice heard.
- In Parliament, the Labour party gradually replaced the Liberals. Since then, the working class has faded as a political force
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was probably the single most powerful political force outside the institutions of government and Parliament.
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was combined with a very low rate of unemployment.
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