The big question

Why are we asking this now?

Michael Gove, the Conservative education spokesman, claims to have identified a dark age in the teaching of history in our schools. He believes that the era between the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the second Jacobite rising of 1745 is a crucial one in our national story, yet too often goes untaught.

So what precisely was the Glorious Revolution?

The 17th century in the British Isles can be loosely characterised as a long and bloody struggle between the monarchy on one side and the aristocracy and parliament on the other. It stretched ...

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