Union with David Olusoga: Creating Britishness

The historian explores how a new British identity was forged in the face of multiple threats and almost constant war with France after the Act of Union in 1707. David reveals the part the Drummond family played in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, and how by the 1780s the tobacco lords of Glasgow were making fortunes from the overseas plantations that relied on the labout of enslaved Africans. Across the Irish Sea, the French Revolution in 1789 inspired some to try to unite Protestants and Catholics and overthrow British rule in Ireland I