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“We Hanoverians are all so glad to be half-English”: Hanover and the legacy of the Anglo-Hanoverian Personal Union, 1866-1918

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The Personal Union with the British world empire was a source of great pride for the inhabitants of the Electorate of Hanover in the eighteenth century. That a sense of Britishness persisted in the former dependency after the official severing of the dynastic bond in 1837 has not yet been properly acknowledged in the historical literature. I therefore intend to re-examine the political and cultural significance of that legacy in the Prussian province of Hanover between 1866 and 1918 as a case study in the interwoven processes of regional, national, and trans-national identity formation.

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars series.

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