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Print and Popularity in the Tolerationist Debates of the English Revolution

The English Civil War and Revolution in the 1600s acted to destabilise and polarise the country. Jack Crosswaite explores the impact this had upon the control over the press, focusing on the changing print culture. The notion of the public sphere is reshaped through this article, through an analysis of pamphlet debates and concepts of popularity.
AUTHOR JACK CROSSWAITE

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The ‘Popish Plot’: Titus Oates and ‘Alternative Facts’ in Seventeenth-Century Britain

In 1681, a fictional Popish Plot went too far. Perhaps ‘alternative facts’ are not unique to the twenty-first century…
AUTHOR: SOPHIE TURBUTT

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The Fall of the Ancien Régime

The role of literacy, the rising middle class, and the decline of the Church were all factors in the Ancien Régime’s steady demise, this article shows.
AUTHOR: LAUREN MILLER