April 14 Contemporary Britain
I. The end of empire
A. decolonization
British Commonwealth > Commonwealth
B. multi-cultural Britain
British Nationality Act (1948)
Race Relations Acts (1965, 1968, 1976)
Enoch Powell and the Rivers of Blood speech
British Nationality Act (1981)
2001 census: 61,000,000
| white | 92.1% |
| black | 2% |
| Indian | 1.8% |
| Pakistani | 1.3% |
| mixed | 1.2% |
| other | 1,6% |
Abbey Mills Mosque controversy
II. The turn toward Europe
European Common Market (EEC) (1957)
III. The state of the union
devolution
Scottish National Party
Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru)
1979 referenda
Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly (1999)
Parliament of Northern Ireland (1998)
