Jacobite Plotting and the Birth of Britain's Parliamentary Monarchy: 1688-1707
By
Colin Kidd
Summary
This article examines the turbulent political period between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Treaty of Union of 1707, focusing on Jacobite plotting and the challenges of political communication at a distance. It explores how the defining characteristics of Britain's parliamentary monarchy and union-state emerged from these fraught decades, highlighting the messy, uncertain nature of the revolution and its aftermath, including civil wars in Scotland and Ireland.
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· 3 pulledThe revolution of 1688 was glorious largely because – unlike the earlier revolution in the 1640s – it was bloodless (in England at least) and did not require the execution of the sitting monarch.
But it was still a messy business.
It not only provoked civil wars in Scotland and Ireland, but also depended on t
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