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Unia realna angielsko-szkocka w ujęciu historiografii szkockiej XX w. Od kontynuacji do rewizji

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Nowakowska-Dryk A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica

2001

issue 70

167-206

The article is condensed outlok of a Polish historian on the issue of the real Union of Great Britain from the Socottish scientific perspective. It shows several opinions on the subject, formulated by the contemporary Scottish historians. The works cited in the article prosent various historiographic attitudes, thus giving readers, a wide spectrum both of the knowledge range and the views concerning the 1707 Union, which are characteristic for the prosent-day Socottish historiography. A number of interesting questions arise in connection with the subject, to which historians give different answers. The article reveals lots of social and economic relations as well as the deliberate actions of the Union creators, which made the Union come into being. This example explains the specifics of the Scottish historiography as a distinct kind of British historiography. The Scottish point of view on the subject is a thorough one, although the emphasis is on the issues which are different from those being in the centre of attention in the history of the southern part of the Island. The Scottish interpretations may even surprise readers not only with a new attitude towards the facts but also with logic and accurcy of the conclusions. The Scottish historians have varied opinions about the main actors of the 1707 drama. This specific historiography is less known to Polish readers and remains frequently unnoticed by the history researchers outside the British cultural circles. Nevertheless, if one takes a closer look at that kind of British historiography, it appears to be methodologically mature and rich in new solutions. The article does not explore the subject comprehensively, it serves as an introduction to the mood and the problems which are predominant in the Scottish historiographic study concerning the 1707 Union.

Oblicza tożsamości brytyjskiej iv poglądach wybranych historyków brytyjskich drugiej połowy XX wieku

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Nowakowska-Dryk A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica

2003

issue 77

147-166

The article Images of the British Identity in the Views of the Chosen British Historians of the Middle of the Twentieth Century is a condensed view of a Polish historian on the problem of various attitudes towards the British National Identity phenomenon in the British historiography of the middle of the twentieth century. It shows opinions of the researchers belonging to different schools of history and options present on the British Island during the period. It is based on the views of chosen representatives of the modern British historiography. A conspicuous part of the article is devoted to the views of Scottish historians as the problem rouses a vivid interest among them. The problem of the British Islands common identity is not widely known in Poland but it evokes numerous areas of the research, both by its local implications and general conception. The article is to familiarize Polish readers with the changing paths of understanding the ideas of nation, patriotism, Scoltishness or Britishness itself and the circumstances influencing their interpretation and present sense. None of them makes a homogeneous and immutable term. The different images of the British identity phenomenon with a huge variety of its components is the integral part of the British historiography of the middle of the twentieth century and the subject of numerous research approaches causing various conclusions.

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Unia realna angielsko-szkocka w ujęciu historiografii szkockiej XX w. Od kontynuacji do rewizji

Oblicza tożsamości brytyjskiej iv poglądach wybranych historyków brytyjskich drugiej połowy XX wieku