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347 The English Revolution

The History of England

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The New Wave Revisionism

Peter lake's article does end rather wearily. Have we really, he asks, spent all this time in effort and simply arrived back at clarendon? And a sort of short term version of whiggism, a constitutional crisis, albeit from a short term reason, and short term political crisis. How can this be? You can imagine the poor lad with his head in his hands, salty tears seeping between his fingers as he sobs with despair over the poinlossness of life and intellectual endeavour. And takes off instead to tend beet root at his allotment,. The real stuff of life, the root of the beet plant. Truth is, there are a bit of

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