The removal of James II by the protestant William of Orange in 1688 – the Glorious Revolution – changed matters. The resumption of war with Catholic France in the 1690s meant that British Catholics ...
William Pitt the Younger was a reforming prime minister who was determined to do what he could to rationalise the British system of taxation. He was a keen devotee of the great economic thinker of the ...
The period from March 1629 to April 1640 later became known as the Personal Rule because Charles I did not summon Parliament during this time. Outwardly, this was a period of peace and prosperity, but ...
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