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
Tag Archive: seventeenth century
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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