Editing Anti-English sentiment (section)

===Wales===
{{See also|Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English}}
The [[Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542]], also known as the "Acts of Union", passed by the [[Parliament of England]], annexed Wales to the [[Kingdom of England]] and replaced the [[Welsh language]] and [[Welsh law]] with the [[English language]] and [[English law]].<ref name="Deddf Uno 1536">{{cite web| title=Laws in Wales Act 1535 (repealed 21.12.1993) (c.26) |url=http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=1517920&versionNumber=1 |access-date=11 November 2010 |publisher=[[Office of Public Sector Information]] |year=2010 |work=[[UK Statute Law Database]] website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102012041/http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=1517920&versionNumber=1 |archive-date=2 January 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Deddf Uno 1543">{{cite web|title=Laws in Wales Act 1542 (repealed) (c.26) |url=http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=Laws+In+Wales&Year=1542&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1518015&ActiveTextDocId=1518015&filesize=1403 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223221425/http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=Laws+In+Wales&Year=1542&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1518015&ActiveTextDocId=1518015&filesize=1403 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2012 |access-date=11 November 2010 |publisher=[[Office of Public Sector Information]] |year=2010 |work=[[UK Statute Law Database|The UK Statute Law Database]] website }}</ref> Section 20 of the 1535 Act made English the only language of the [[law courts]] and stated that those who used Welsh would not be appointed to any [[public office]] in Wales.<ref name="Deddf Uno 1536"/> The Welsh language was supplanted in many public spheres. Much later, the [[Welsh Not]] was used in some schools to suppress the use of the Welsh language. This was never government policy, and was later described as a symbol of English cultural oppression.<ref name="Welsh not BBC">{{cite web| title= The Welsh language in 19th century education |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/language_education.shtml |access-date=11 November 2010 |publisher=[[BBC Cymru Wales]] |year=2010 |work=[[BBC Cymru Wales|BBC Cymru Wales history]] website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428073446/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/language_education.shtml |archive-date=28 April 2014 }}</ref>

Since the [[Glyndŵr Rising]] of the early 15th century, Welsh nationalism has been primarily non-violent.<ref name="Kivisto, P. 2002 p.129">Kivisto, P. (2002). Multiculturalism in a global society. Oxford. p.129</ref> The Welsh militant group [[Meibion Glyndŵr]] ({{langx|en|Sons of [[Owain Glyndŵr|[Owain] Glyndŵr]]}}) were responsible for arson attacks on English-owned second homes in Wales from 1979 to 1994, motivated by cultural anti-English sentiment.<ref name="Kivisto, P. 2002 p.129"/> Meibion Glyndŵr also attempted arson against several estate agents in Wales and England and against the offices of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in London.<ref name="guardian1">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4365404,00.html |title=Wales swamped by tide of English settlers |first=David |last=Ward |work=The Guardian|date=1 March 2002 |access-date=21 May 2009 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040923193755/http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0%2C4273%2C4365404%2C00.html |archive-date=23 September 2004 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=H7T-f_QiVHkC&pg=PA129 | title = Multiculturalism in a global society | first = Peter | last = Kivisto | publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | year = 2002 | access-date =21 May 2009 | isbn = 978-0-631-22194-4 }}</ref>

In 2000, the Chairman of [[Swansea]] Bay Race Equality Council said that "Devolution has brought a definite increase in anti-English behaviour", citing three women who believed that they were being discriminated against in their careers because they could not speak Welsh.<ref>{{cite news| last=Milmo |first=Cahal |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/english-the-victims-of-racism-in-wales-710971.html |title=English the victims of racism in Wales - This Britain, UK |work=The Independent|date=4 August 2000 |access-date=21 May 2009 | location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312225340/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/english-the-victims-of-racism-in-wales-710971.html |archive-date=12 March 2014 }}</ref> In 2001 [[Dafydd Elis-Thomas]], a former leader of [[Plaid Cymru]], said that there was an anti-English strand to Welsh nationalism.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1716615.stm | work=BBC News | title=Attack on '19th century' nationalism | date=18 December 2001 | access-date=30 March 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021083951/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1716615.stm | archive-date=21 October 2007 }}</ref>

On 21 April 2023, it was reported that [[Plaid Cymru]] councillor, Terry Davies had been suspended for a rant of discriminatory xenophobia. Davies referred to two colleagues as "outsiders" after telling them that "Wales is for  Welsh people."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65353057|title=Councillor suspended for 'Wales is for Welsh people' rant|work=BBC News, BBC|date=21 April 2023|accessdate=22 April 2023}}</ref>

On 11 January 2024, It was reported that a note had been sent to an address in [[Aberystwyth]], in [[Ceredigion]], with racial slurs about English people from [[Birmingham]]. The note called for [[Brummie dialect|Brummie]]s to "go back home to Brummyland". It also called the [[West Midlands English|West Midlands accent]] "vomit-inducing", and urged the occupant to "take a few thousand other people back with them". [[Dyfed-Powys Police]] treated the note as a [[hate crime]]. It read: "Iorwerth Ave was once a nice, quiet, pleasant residential area until a load of [people] from the [[Midlands]] hit", and "Low-life like you should be forced to live in fenced in sites, preferably back where you came from."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67935426|title=Aberystwyth: 'Go back to Brummyland' note a hate crime - police|first=Paul|last=Pigott|work=BBC News, BBC Wales|date=11 January 2024|accessdate=11 January 2023}}</ref>