impressed with my answer to your last history question?
Not as impressed as your choice of Shaw's motorcycle. Including the relatively small scale Spanish Revolution to my list of WWI, WWII, and the Spanish Influenza (is that what you call it in the UK?) is a decidedly Eurocentric approach. It ignores the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, the Armenian Genocide, the Russian Revolution(s), etc that were far more destructive in terms of the loss of human life. I include early Japanese invasions of China as a part of WWII, as the Chinese sensibly include that.
Let's see how you answer the following
Is England the European nation that nurtured, developed, and ultimately adopted the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment, or was England the nation in Europe that was left out, particularly as evidenced by the failure of the 1848 revolutions to penetrate deeply into English culture?
England is an odd case. It's a highly stratified society, one that never had the revolutionary expulsion of lordship leadership as we saw in most other major European countries. Further, the role of the state church in England would also seem to be anti-Enlightenment. There are strong signs that even today, this stratification harms English society. For an example in the news today we need only examine the anti-working class sentiment that caused so much pain at Hillsborough.
That being said, it was the Royal Navy that in so many ways defined modern professionalism and the creation of the middle class - in addition to saving the world from tyranny. This is a contradiction even of itself, because the middle class as referenced above does not include the lower deck, a place of brutality, squalor, and in some times and places out and out slavery. (ie Spithead and the Nore) If we feel like being cynical, we could state that the enlightenment in England never got much further than the sitting room at more well-to-do homes. Putting that aside, the wooden walls served England well in more than one way.
The lack of revolutions in England should be seen for what they really mean: England was country that did not need a revolution to achieve enlightenment ideals. Institutions like the Royal Society, the Royal Navy, the Methodist Church, and the many many clubs of England served the function of a barricades in the streets in other countries - including to a lesser extent the United States (on both barricades and institutions).