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Hace 5 días · Social Life. 'What has been, and is', says Drake, (fn. 1) 'the chief support of the city, at present, is the resort to and residence of several country gentlemen with their families in it.' By the 1730's the city was indeed well established as the social capital of Yorkshire and perhaps of an even wider area.
Hace 5 días · Between 1634 and its temporary abolition by the Long Parliament in 1640 the Court of Chivalry was established on a regular basis for the first time in its history. Evidence survives for 738 of well over a thousand cases that the court processed during this period.
Hace 2 días · This chapter provides an important re-evaluation of the British role in the Thirty Years War and, importantly, the author’s revisionist sentiments climax in a call for other ‘peripheral’ powers to be studied to understand the conflict in a wider European context.
Hace 4 días · Methodism, 18th-century movement founded by John Wesley that sought to reform the Church of England from within. The movement, however, became separate from its parent body and developed into an autonomous church. The World Methodist Council comprises more than 40.5 million people in 138 countries.
Hace 3 días · Being a parent had vital significance for both public and personal identity. Parents had a public duty to raise healthy, educated citizens who would contribute to a stable and patriotic society. This was especially important in the politically turbulent years of 1760–1830.
Hace 1 día · e. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the imperial government led the 13 colonies to begin uniting in 1774, and expelling British officials by 1775.
Hace 5 días · Part One explores how Britons came to know their empire—the foods, the people, the habits, to define or redefine their own self of Britishness and the role of imperial authority upon consumers who would adopt and adapt their eating preferences as a result of strategic advertising campaigns.
