Key terminology of the British Isles and British regionalism (north and south divide, Manchaster, Liverpool)

- 1 mil. → 3 mil. Unemployment

- traditional working-class economies

- social chaos and rioting

- growth in music – The Smiths, Oasis – individualism, Joy Division

- rave

- The Smiths – for people who didn’t fit in, morbid, child abuse, unemployment

- 1990s reborn as post industrial city

- everyone in moving here

- Manchester United

- Britain in some places never recovered from industrial revolution

- it was hard to be homosexual in Manchester, now it is massively cosmopolitan, financial services

Liverpool

- unique character

- port city, one of the main ports of industrial revolution

– city created in indust. rev. – industrial origin

- cotton arrived here

- dockers

- black market economy

- sailors → prostitution, they were drunk and wanted to spend money → pickpockets and criminality

- stealing cotton from Caribbean states

- cotton → Liverpool → goods – making money from trade slavers

- slaves from Africa

- textiles, transatlantic slave trade = triangle of death (* Southern United states/Caribbean → cotton to Liverpool)

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Slaves from Africa

- ,,To get down to the nitty gritty” = to the fundamental issue

- slave trades – first black community 18th century

- Liverpudlian accent – unique, 1mil Irish left to Liverpool (potato famine)

- Liverpool cathedral – catholic – because of Irish, but also protestant