People of the UK...

How does the UK teach about your Wars against the USA? Like do they go in depth or gloss over it for the most part?

Then again, y'all probably have a lot more history to cover, as y'all go a lot further back in history than the USA.

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

No, they are certainly not glossed over. The War of Independence had huge political ramifications at home and indirectly advanced parliamentary sovereignty at the expense of a weakened monarchy. The 'distraction' of the 1812 war nearly changed the course of a rather bigger conflict in Europe (sorry about the White House, btw). And with the loss of some north American colonies, Britain's focus shifted eastwards . .

Viper · M

@SunshineGirl Glad to help get y'all to focus more on parliamentary and less on monarchy, though I don't think we cover that much, it's cool to hear :)

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Viper Not sure what you mean or why whatever your heard is "cool"; but for a few centuries now, Britain has been run by the Government and Parliament, not the Monarch.

This, and increasing democracy at citizenry level, was not achieved in a single step, but gradually, by intermittent moves from as far back as Magna Carta. The largest jolt was Oliver Cromwell's 11 years of theocratic republic and the Restoration, which together ended the supremacy of Sovereign over Parliament;

It is this evolution rather than revolution that fools a lot of people - including some politicians who really should know better - into thinking what became the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" has no written Constitution. It does, but spread over hundreds of years' worth of charters, laws and procedures.

The monarch is the Head of State, not of the Government and Parliament that administer the State.

So if we focus more on Parliament than on the Monarchy, that reflects how the nation is run.