they always will be a history of conquest and assimilation hard won independence and also strong opposition from people who want britain to be britain not welsh or scottish etc my grandmother yes that close was thrashed for speaking welsh in the playground of her school an experienced mirrored in first nation people in your country and a culture was almost wiped out at the time those things are within living memory so advocates of we are all british really will get a strong response same on the irish pages where memories of cultural assimilation are also strong and of cromwell for that matter i remember being on civil rights marches in belfast in the s as catholics did not have a vote something a lot of people forget or don't know and still have the scars of b special brutality from that i could go on but its not an academic issue for many editors it is their lived reality and history talk