Secrets and lies: Spies of the Stuart era played a dangerous game in the shadows of an unstable Europe
Stuart monarchs were repeatedly challenged by dangerous threats—a gunpowder plot, a civil war and political revolution. As a ...
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KS3 History: Why revolutions occur - Political change and social change
In Britain in 1688, the so-called Glorious Revolution took place when the Catholic ... was replaced as monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland by his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her Dutch ...
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Slavery: Welsh weavers 'implicated in US slave trade'
"Between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the War of 1812 ... Unlike the vast mills of the industrial north of England - which would eventually put the Welsh weavers out of business - the ...
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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial ...
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Viewpoint: Agincourt, WWII and other great British 'myths'
author of A Short History of England, casts a critical eye over British legends. Events in history like the Norman conquest, the "Glorious Revolution" and the American revolution have become ...
Breaking Badenoch: Why Kemi’s position is already precarious
Kemi Badenoch has won the Conservative leadership with a policy-light campaign, but if she’s really committed to radical ...
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Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion ...