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Tim Compeau Loyalist Migrations is a collaboration between Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada (UELAC), and Liz Sutherland at the Map and Data Centre at Western University. This will...
‘Dead men are at work’ (p. 615). The final volume of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy is a book of ghosts. It opens only a second after the previous instalment, Bring up the Bodies, ended, as life leaves the now truncated queen. The...
Robert W. Passfield What has been termed ‘Whig History’ is a Liberal historiography that views history teleologically in terms of the progress of humanity towards enlightenment, rationalism, scientism, secularism, and the freedom of the individual....
"Anne Stuart was an unlikely person to become queen of England. She was born on February 6, 1665 to the Duke and Duchess of York and was their 2nd daughter out of 3 children. Shortly before her birth, her uncle, King Charles II, had married and seemed...
One of the greatest pleasures among many of my line of work is being invited to give a public lecture. This is always thanks to the audience, who bring their own knowledge and interests to the event, often encouraging (and sometimes forthrightly challenging)...
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose. Below the image is a Shakespeare quote from Henry VI,...
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose. Below the image is a Shakespeare quote from Henry VI,...
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose. Below the image is a Shakespeare quote from Henry VI,...
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose. Below the image is a Shakespeare quote from Henry VI,...
Anne Arundell, Lady Baltimore (1615-1649). Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615/1616-23 July 1649) was an English noblewoman, daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, by his 2nd wife Anne...
‘253.–Bible which belonged to John Balfour of Kinloch, “The Covenanter,” who, with others, took up arms against the [allegedly] intolerant Government of Charles II.; he fought at Drumclog, where, on [correction] 1 June, 1679, the...
The British Royal House during British American ColonizationElizabeth I (the Great) 1558-1603 Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, last of the TudorsJames I 1603-1625 James VI of Scotland, House of StuartCharles I 1625-1649 Deposed....
After the republican Richard Rumbold was hanged in Edinburgh, an account of his death appeared in print which contained the line that “none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him”. A century...
In his History, Wodrow devoted a long passage to the life and death of Thomas Archer, a moderate-presbyterian minister who was captured at the Battle of Muirdykes and executed in Edinburgh in August, 1685: ‘It was some longer time before Mr Thomas...
"A Trew Law of Free Monarchs" James I Stuart The "Divine Right of Kings." James I. (1566-1625) King of Scotland (as James VI., 1567-1625) First Stuart King of England (as James I., 1603-1625)This oppressive political theory contributed...
Elizabeth I began her rule as England's monarch in 1558. Never-married Queen Elizabeth avidly studied a variety of languages and cultures. She encouraged her nation to explore the world.In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh had sent an expedition to settle Roanoke...
1600 Anne of Denmark 1574-1619 queen of James I of England. by Isaac OliverAnne of Denmark (1574–1619) was queen consort of Scotland, England, & Ireland as the wife of James VI & I (1566-1625).1578 Queen Anne's mother Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow...
A Timeline of Events Exploring the Atlantic coast of North America during Queen Elizabeth's Reign 1559-16031558Queen Elizabeth succeeds Queen Mary. 1562Jean Ribault establishes Huguenot colony (Charles Fort) at Port Royal in South Carolina. John Hawkins...
We have few depictions of women in the 17C British American colonies, but the prints by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) allow us to see the hairstyles & fashions being worn on the other side of the Atlantic during the early years of the English colonization...
The “Martyrs of Tradition”, for which there is no historical evidence, have not been included in the above list. For a PDF version of this list, see here. Return to Homepage Text © Copyright Dr Mark Jardine. All Rights Reserved. Please...
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