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George Grenville, Prime Minister of Britain (pictured above), proposed the Sugar Act to raise money from the colonies to help pay Britain’s debt and to fund a standing army in Colonial America. Image Source: Wikimedia.
Hace 1 día · The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Hace 3 días · Orwell’s first socialist book was an original and unorthodox political treatise titled The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). It begins by describing his experiences when he went to live among the destitute and unemployed miners of northern England, sharing and observing their lives; it ends in a series of sharp criticisms of existing socialist ...
- George Orwell wrote the political fable Animal Farm (1944), the anti-utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the unorthodox political treatise T...
- George Orwell won scholarships to two of England’s leading schools, Wellington and Eton colleges. He briefly attended the former before transferrin...
- George Orwell was brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery, first in India and then in England. His father was a minor British official...
- George Orwell wrote two hugely influential novels: Animal Farm (1944), a satire that allegorically depicted Joseph Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian...
Hace 5 días · Identified as belonging to George Grenville (1712-1770), prime minister between 1763-65, the ring will be offered at Noonans Mayfair on June 11 with an estimate of £6000-8000. Grenville is partly remembered for trying to reduce Britain’s growing debt by raising revenue in the American colonies with the introduction of the Stamp ...
Hace 3 días · Townshend, George, 1715-1769. Letter to Thomas Townshend, 1701-1780 TD 2103 (1747, June 6) Scope and Contents
Hace 2 días · Though there have been other attempts over the years (such as the Irish Republican Army’s attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher in 1984), Spencer Perceval remains the only British prime minister to have been assassinated. What’s surprising, therefore, is how few people in Britain have heard of Prime Minister Perceval.
Hace 4 días · Today, at the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, the Ontario Heritage Trust unveiled a marker commemorating the gravesite of the Honourable William Grenville Davis, 18th premier of Ontario.
