A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 64

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

LXIV THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1914 We may note here briefly the varied nature of the constituents of the British Empire in 1914 which the steamship and railway had brought together. It was and is a quite unique political ...Read Morenothing of the sort has ever existed before. First and central to the whole system was the “crowned republic” of the United British Kingdom, including (against the will of a considerable part of the Irish people) Ireland. The majority of the British Parliament, made up of the three united parliaments of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, determines the headship, Read Less