I do think it's important, not just to know in the abstract, but to make part of your understanding of the world, that all of the land in Britain has been stolen.
how do you get a mobile workforce who can be coerced into the mines and the mills? how do you get your peasantry to take work digging canals through the rock of the hills? how do you create factory girls and all the slum children you can eat to keep your weaving frames clean?
how do you make your people willing to work at starvation wages in crippling conditions when the great god Industry needs bodies to feed on?
well, one place you might start is to take away their land.
The first place The British colonised was Britain.
