British people | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people


00:03:30 1 History of the term
00:09:14 2 History
00:09:23 2.1 Ancestral roots
00:13:36 2.2 Union and the development of Britishness
00:17:41 2.3 Union of Scotland and England
00:24:58 2.4 Union with Ireland
00:29:22 2.5 Modern period
00:34:56 3 Geographic distribution
00:39:03 3.1 Australia
00:41:47 3.2 British overseas territories
00:43:32 3.3 Canada
00:46:33 3.4 New Zealand
00:48:26 3.5 Hong Kong
00:50:32 3.6 United States
00:54:07 3.7 Chile
00:58:44 3.8 South Africa
01:00:11 3.9 Ireland
01:03:15 4 Culture
01:04:29 4.1 Cuisine
01:07:01 4.2 Languages
01:09:03 4.3 Literature
01:11:14 4.4 Media and music
01:15:11 4.5 Religion
01:20:22 4.6 Sport
01:23:34 4.7 Visual art and architecture
01:28:13 4.8 Political culture
01:32:14 5 Classification
01:36:14 6 See also



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The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.  British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Celtic Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It may also refer to citizens of the former British Empire.
Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity. The notion of Britishness was forged during the Napoleonic Wars between Britain and the First French Empire, and developed further during the Victorian era. The complex history of the formation of the United Kingdom created a "particular sense of nationhood and belonging" in Great Britain and Ireland; Britishness became "superimposed on much older identities", of English, Scots, Welsh and Irish cultures, whose distinctiveness still resists notions of a homogenised British identity. Because of longstanding ethno-sectarian divisions, British identity in Northern Ireland is controversial, but it is held with strong conviction by Unionists.Modern Britons are descended mainly from the varied ethnic groups that settled in the British Isles in and before the 11th century: Prehistoric, Brittonic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Normans. The progressive political unification of the British Isles facilitated migration, cultural and linguistic exchange, and intermarriage between the peoples of England, Scotland and Wales during the late Middle Ages, early modern period and beyond. Since 1922 and earlier, there has been immigration to the United Kingdom by people from what is now the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth, mainland Europe and elsewhere; they and their descendants are mostly British citizens, with some assuming a British, dual or hyphenated identity.The British are a diverse, multinational, multicultural and multilingual  society, with "strong regional accents, expressions and identities". The social structure of the United Kingdom has changed radically since the 19th century, with a decline in religious observance, enlargement of the middle class, and increased ethnic diversity, particularly since the 1950s. The population of the UK stands at around 66 million, with a British diaspora of around 140 million concentrated in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, with smaller concentrations in the United States, Republic of Ireland, Chile, South Africa and parts of the Caribbean.