Question

how did Britain seek to forge a 'British Nation'?

Answer 1

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 is a history written in 1992 by Linda Colley. Britonscharts the emergence of British identity from the Act of Union in 1707 with Scotland and England to the beginning of the Victorian erain 1837. British identity, she argues, was created from four features that both united the Britons and set the nation apart from others:

Britain is a Protestant state defined against a largely Catholic Europe;it is an island nation with a strong navy rather than a massive army;it is a metropole;it is a direct rival to France.