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Three Kingdoms, One Crown — Member Dossier
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Our free articles on Tudor and Stuart Britain tend to follow the crown: the six wives, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the king who lost his head. This dossier asks a different question of the same century and a half. Between the fall of Cardinal Wolsey in 1529 and the settlement of 1689, the monarchies of England, Scotland and Ireland changed more than in any comparable span before or since: a national church was created by statute, dissolved, restored to Rome, and reconstituted; a king was tried and executed by his own subjects; the monarchy was abolished and then brought back; and a second…
What you get
- 6 chapters, about 12100 words
- A chapter on what historians still argue about
- A chronology
- A reading list with the sources named
- PDF in A4 and US Letter
For: Readers who want one episode argued through from the evidence, with the disagreements between historians left visible.
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