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instance, I didn't include the highland clearances simply because I had inaccurately assumed they had concluded prior to this period. I will have look at some work by the authors you suggested. The fact that
Britain in 1901 wasn't a democracy in a 21st century sense could do with being made clearer. I think the economics section could probably be a lot better which would also cover a significant part off what you mention about Scotland, Ireland and the UK's relationship to the wider empire. However, it may be some time until I'm ready to make significant changes to the article.
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English historiography, let alone representing views from outside England. To reach the higher FA standard, the article needs a radical rewrite from the ground up, in which the Whiggish view is discussed as a widely-used but problematic political narrative, rather than adopted as the framing. The Victorian era was a time of colossal contradictions and huge hypocrisies, but the article does not convey that. Due weight should be given at the framing level to non-English scholars such as
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Parliament was still wholly populated by hereditary peers, bishops and judges; it was 100% unelected, and its veto power was not challenged until 1910. Even by the time of Queen
Victoria's death, only ~25% of British adults were allowed to vote in Parliamentary elections. Until 1918, most men were disenfranchised and no women could vote. The vote was not extended to all women until 1928, and one-person-one-vote didn't happen until
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FPTP. So the article's unqualfied description of 1901 Britain as a "democracy" is a common trope of
Whiggish history, but it is a self-serving fantasy which the article should portray as propagada rather than fact. Victorian Britain was not a democracy; it was an imperial oligarchy which had made a series of major concessions to democracy, but still had a very long way to go. 8 years after Victoria's death Lloyd George's
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Waterford. But in rural Ireland, the dominant issues of land tenure, repression, religious division, unrepresentative politics and post-Gorta Mor emigration bear little relationship to the issues dominating that framing of the history of the island of Britain. As but one example of the gulf between the histories of the two islands, the : -->
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which is a long way from contemporary scholarship. For instance, the article says "Domestically, Britain liberalised and gradually evolved into a democracy". Sorry, but while that's a common
Whiggish narrative, it's also demonstrably absurd. By the time of Victoria's death, the upper house of the UK
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So Irish history is usually divided into pre- and post Famine eras; the
Victorian era as described in the article has some validity as a lens for looking at the history of Dublin and Belfast, both of which experienced industrialisation and professionalisaton, as did (to a lesser extent) the cities of
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I've been working on this article a great deal this year. I have recently got it to good article status and it will be appearing on the front page in the next couple of days. I'm hopping to get it to featured article status over the next few months which would be my first featured article. What kind
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to get quicker and more responses. When this PR is closed, please remove it from the list. Also, consider adding the sidebar to your userpage to help others discover pre-FAC PRs, and please review other articles in that template. And, since you are still seeking your first successful FAC, I suggest
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The article as it is currently written is to a large extent based on the sources that were here before I started working on it, especially in the politics section, though I appreciate my own biases as someone from quite an anglophone part of Wales may have influenced what I chose to include. For
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voting system both blocks new entrants and hands whopping
Parliametary majorities to parties with a minority of votes. AFAIK, nowhere else in Europe pulls off both those scams; and when the UK designed electoral systems for Ireland (1919) and Germany (late 1940s), it took great care not to allow
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Llewee is clearly well-intentioned and diligent and amicably collaborative, and I especially welcome Llewee's effort to seek Irish input. But the article lacks not just neutrality. It lacks a scholarly overview and framework; in outline, its framing belongs to an era well before even the 1950s
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once accepted Brtish rule, let alone voted for the men who governed them. There is no mention at all of how
Ireland was ued as a revenue farm, its taxation subsidising Britain and its land a lucrative income stream for largely non-resident landlords, many of them avaricious and cruel
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Ireland, because the Victorian era is rarely used by historians of Ireland as a framing for the 19th cetury. Instead, the defining landmark of 19th-century Ireland is the so-called
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allocates Parliamentary seats by the number of registered voters rather than by the census-based number of residents, a scam which for various reasons massively under-represents urban areas; and its
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This has been open for over a month without comment. Are you still interested in receiving feedback? If so, I suggest posting on the Wikiprojects attached to this article, asking for a review.
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I know that would be a big task, and you are of course under no pressure to take on such a big task. i just note that without such a reframing, the article won't reach FA standard.
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