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General

• Political & Economic History of Great Britain from the Civil War to the Twentieth Century
• Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present
• British Prime Ministers, 1760-1901
• The British Empire (homepage)
• The Bullion Committee
• Improvements in the Anglican Clergy since the Restoration
• The South Sea Bubble

The Revolution of 1640, and Restoration of 1660, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688

• James I (rules 1603-1625)
• The Divine Right of Kings
• A Brief Biography of James I
• “James the First” by Isaac D’Israeli
• Charles I (rules 1625-1642; executed 1649)
• The Death of Charles I Transformed Him a Political Force
• Oliver Cromwell (rules 1642-60) and the Interregnum
• Oliver Cromwell
• Thomas Carlyle on Cromwell
• Cromwell and Napoleon as Military Leaders and Heads of Government
• The political Economy of the English Revolution of 1640
• The Interregnum (1640-1660)
• Cromwell’s New Model Army
• The Reformation, Cromwell, the Commonwealth, and Readmission of the Jews
• The Restoration (1660) and the Accession of Charles II (rules 1660-1685)
• The Restoration (brief Introduction)
• Charles II and Clarendon
• Macaulay on the Character of Charles II
• James II (rules 1685-1688)
• James II (brief biography)
• James II and Seventeenth-Century Anti-Catholicism
• The Glorious Revolution (1688)
• The Glorious Revolution (brief Introduction)
• Macaulay Explains the Glorious Revolution of 1688
• The 1689 Bill of Rights
• Jacobites
• Britain and Ireland, 1789-1801

Social, Economic, and Technological History

• “Vicious Theory and Vicious Practice”: Seventeenth-Century Anti-Catholicism
• London since the Seventeenth Century
• The Rise of the Coffeehouse
• Changes in the Landed Classes since the Restoration
• The Dreadful Condition of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Roads and Highways
• Taxation and National Revenue
• Improvements in Agriculture since the Restoration

Military History

• The New Model Army
• The State of Britain’s Army during the Reign of Charles II
• The Terrible Condition of Britain’s Navy in the Late Seventeenth Century
• Britain’s Artillery at the end of the Seventeenth Century
• The War of the Spanish Succession or Marlborough's Wars (1702-13)

Riots and Civil Disorders before the Accession of Victoria

• The Gordon Riots, June 1780
• Riots, Disaffection, and Repression, 1811-19
• The Luddites, 1811-16
• Riots in Sheffield, 1812
• The Spa Fields Riots, 2 December 1816
• The March of the Blanketeers, March 1817
• The Pentrich Rising (the Derbyshire Insurrection), 9 June 1817
• The Peterloo Massacre, 16 August 1819
• Contemporary Accounts of the Peterloo Massacre
• The Six Acts, 1819
• The Cato Street Conspiracy, 23 February 1820

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