Great Britain and Serbia in 1876

Abstract

This article reconstructs the generally known history of British policy towards Serbia and the Eastern Question during 1876. The author has noted a certain disproportion in the public movement in favor of Balkan Christians and the support they enjoyed in some parts of the media. Also, regardless of all the differences, British policy, the author argues, had no significant alternative in the British political movement aimed to support the Balkan Christians. All changes in British policy could primarily be reflected at the superficial level, their geopolitical and cultural assignment, since the early Modern ages, could change only in cases such as the world wars - when the British empire acquired unexpected enemies, and even then the change in its policy was not permanent.