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"The seventeenth century saw the institution of monarchy at both its apogee and its nadir. The reign of Elizabeth is often considered its golden age…"
"The Jacobite government-in-exile…consisted of two distinct parts. There was the ministry, which was soon reduced in size to become…"
"The use of cartoons in the Daily Mirror began in 1903 when William Kerridge Haselden, an aspiring cartoonist, had an idea. Working as an insurance clerk…"
"The public's ability to engage with political and religious issues, and with current affairs, had always been highly controversial, not least to the extent that…"
"The general direction of Anglo-Russian relations was one of animosity to alliance and back to animosity. As such, there are parallels with relations between…"
"In the very first year of the journal, the discovery of a Roman inscription in London was highlighted. A sampling of material in the journal’s first years shows…"
"On first opening volumes of the early seventeenth-century State Papers Foreign, readers are dazzled by the collection's contents and its comprehensiveness…"
"James Bennett, and his son, Gordon Bennett […] were remarkable in their early understanding of the possibilities of electronic communication for creating news…"
"One of the most striking phenomena of the early modern period was the rise and then the decline of Spain between the late fifteenth and the late seventeenth…"
The raison d'etre of this collection is the man from whom it takes its title. This was the Duke of Cumberland, who was born William Augustus in London on 15 April 1721 and was the third son of George, Prince of Wales (George II from 1727-60) and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales.
"Both before and during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), British foreign policy primarily reflected a strategic rivalry with France. The two powers…"
"Advertising in historical newspapers has been something of a poor relation within media studies, but early newspaper advertisements were…"
Stuart government in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century rested upon a number of constitutional pillars re-established at the Restoration in 1660. They came under some strain in 1688, and in the 1690s, but essentially survived in the same form into the eighteenth-century.
During the nineteenth century, fire was perhaps the most severe environmental threat faced by Americans, especially in urban areas. Before the Civil War, hundreds of large fires destroyed property worth over 200 million dollars in the nation’s principal cities.