Seminar 3
Seminar 3: Politics from the restoration to the death of Anne
- What does Locke mean by ‘civil society’?
- ‘The Church in Danger’: How valid was this slogan in the reigns of William III and Queen Anne?
- Why were there so many changes of government in Anne’s reign?
- ‘The rage of party that characterised Anne's reign was the continuation of civil war by other means’ (Pocock) Discuss.
- How independent were voters during the First Age of Party?
See O’Gorman, The Long Eighteenth century and Holmes, Making of a Great Power
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J Kenyon, Revolution Principles: The Politics of party, 1688-1720
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G Holmes, British Politics in the Age of Anne
G Holmes, Politics, religion and society in England, 1649-1742
G Holmes (ed.), Britain after the Glorious Revolution
G Holmes, ‘The Sacheverell riots, the crowd and the church in early eighteenth century London’, Past and Present, 1978
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Gordon Schochet, ‘“Guards and fences”: Property and obligation in Locke’s political thought’, History of Political Thought, 2000
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Elections and Voting Behaviour in the Age of Anne
See Holmes, Making of a Great Power
S W Baskerville, 'The Dynamics of Landlord Influence in English County Elections 1701-1734', Parliamentary History, 1993
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J C D Clark, English Society
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G Holmes, The Electorate and the National Will in the First Age of Party
J H Plumb, 'The Growth of the Electorate in England, 1600-1715', Past and Present, 1969
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W A Speck, ‘The electorate in the first age of party’ in G Holmes (ed.), Britain after the Glorious Revolution