What were the effects of the French Revolution on British Politics?
As a stubborn opponent of French ideas, and a persistent foe of French arms during the Revolutionary period, Britain was bound to be influenced, both directly and indirectly by the momentous events in France. The French Revolution stimulated new developments in Britain, as well as perpetuating old trends, sometimes even providing an obstacle to reform. The complexity of the French Revolution makes an assessment of its impact upon British politics very difficult, a challenge exacerbated by the profound changes - economic, demographic and social - that were occurring in Britain at the time. It thus becomes difficult, perhaps impossible, to clearly differentiate between those events and changes in Britain that came about as a direct result of the French Revolution and those which occurred as part of an continuing and inexorable process of industrialisation already under way in the United Kingdom.
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