The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord-Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Impartially Collected from the Best Historians, and Several Original Manuscripts. the Fifth Edition, with Additions
The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord-Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Impartially Collected from the Best Historians, and Several Original Manuscripts. the Fifth Edition, with Additions

Author: ISAAC. KIMBER

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781385332061

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Cambridge University Library N011177 Anonymous. By Isaac Kimber. Sometimes also attributed to Edmund Gibson, and to Sir Thomas Pengelly. With an advertisement leaf following p.vi. London: printed for J. Brotherton; and T. Cox, 1743. vi, [3], viii-xxii,408p., plate: port.; 8°

Dissenting Histories
Dissenting Histories

Author: John Seed

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-11-26

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0748629483

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The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.

Making a Massacre
Making a Massacre

Author: Tom Reilly

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1803415428

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If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that Oliver Cromwell committed civilian atrocities at Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, thus adversely infecting Anglo-Irish relations for that entire period. As well as other events in Irish history, Cromwell in Ireland has often been weaponised in the North of Ireland. Still, today, emotions about this topic run very deep. Imagine for a moment that Cromwell is completely innocent of these charges of genocide: the overwhelming verdict of history thus far. Imagine also a scenario in which this anomaly in the teaching of Irish history were discovered by a non-historian, an amateur who failed second-level history. This is that story. This is an accurate (and sideways) account of one man's lone battle to overturn this miscarriage of historical justice - two middle fingers to mainstream academia. Most significantly, this is the story of the pushback the author has encountered from academics, in general, who have closed ranks in their reluctance to embrace incontrovertible facts. This is the uncomfortable truth that challenges Ireland's role of the ultimate victim of the seventeenth century's conflicts and how this historical period has been - and still is - profoundly abused to suit the Saorstát Éireann narrative.