At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out… - Linda Colley
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out…
- Linda Colley
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the t… - Linda Colley
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the t…
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist tha… - Linda Colley
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist tha…
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so r… - Linda Colley
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so r…
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing… - Linda Colley
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing…
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether so… - Linda Colley
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether so…
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern… - Linda Colley
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern…
Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at … - Linda Colley
Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at …
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those … - Linda Colley
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those …
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