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Was Charles I responsible for his own execution?
Since the days of the Samuel Rawson Gardiner, history has portrayed Charles I of England as a man lacking in any visible virtue, be them kingly or otherwise. Hill named him a ‘petulant and obstinate king’. Morrill called him ‘incompetent’, Russell, ‘uncompromising’. Indeed, the historiography of Charles I; Whigs, Marxists, Revisionists and Post-Revisionists has been… Continue reading
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‘To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.’
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors” On the 4th of November in 1789, The Rev. Richard Price gave an address at a dinner of the ‘Revolution Society’ – an association of ministers who met annually to celebrate the English Revolution of 1688. Price’s address was titled ‘A… Continue reading
Izaak Tanna 