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'While there are many common features in the experience of the past in Britain and Ireland (for instance, the maintenance of both oral and written modes for its preservation and communication), and while there are many good examples of interpenetration of myths and sharing of historical episodes between the separate kingdoms, one will look in vain for a single 'sense'.'

'A British national identity rested not simply on a united monarchy and, after 1707, a single parliament, but in large measure on a shared set of perceptions of and attitudes toward the past in general and, more specifically toward certain key episodes such as the Norman Conquest, the Reformation and the civil wars.'