The Roots of Rebellion: Tea, Taxes, and Colonial Tensions The story of the American Revolution cannot be told without understanding […]
The Powder Keg of Colonial Taxation In 1765, British Prime Minister George Grenville made a fateful miscalculation. Fresh from the […]
The Ill-Fated Assault on Fort Carillon In July 1758, General James Abercromby, derisively nicknamed “Granny” by his troops, led a […]
The Fractious Frontier: Colonial and Indigenous Tensions In 1744, representatives of British colonies and six Iroquois nations gathered in Newtown, […]
The Sunday Markets: A Reconstructed African World In the bustling Sunday markets of English Harbour in Antigua or Bridgetown in […]
A Colonial Vision Gone Awry The original blueprint for England’s American colonies envisioned an orderly system where “undesirables” from the […]
A Theatrical Prelude to Empire The scene opens on a wild, mythic landscape—a hermit’s cave shrouded by ancient woods, a […]
The Shadow of Culloden: A Nation in Mourning In the smoky taverns of London, Scottish exiles witnessed the brutal aftermath […]
The Spark of Rebellion: Charles Edward Stuart’s Gamble In August 1745, a young prince stepped onto Scottish soil with a […]
A City of Spectacle and Suffering London in the 1720s and 1730s was a city of jarring contrasts—a dazzling stage […]
A Nation Divided: The Origins of the Sacheverell Crisis The year 1710 marked a pivotal moment in British political history […]
A Nation’s Dream of Empire In July 1698, three ships set sail from the Firth of Forth under the blue-and-white […]
The Ticking Clock of Dutch Kingship When William of Orange crossed the English Channel in 1688 to claim the British […]
The Unraveling of James II’s Reign The final years of James II’s rule were marked by a deepening political and […]
The Powder Keg of 17th-Century England By 1679, England stood at a crossroads. The specter of Catholic absolutism loomed large, […]
The Powder Keg of Europe: Origins of the Conflict The sudden outbreak of war between England and the Dutch Republic […]
A Nation in Crisis: The Historical Backdrop The year 1667 marked a turning point for England. The catastrophic Great Fire […]
A City on the Brink: London Before the Fire In the mid-17th century, London was a bustling metropolis teetering between […]
The Rise and Fall of Oliver Cromwell The execution of Charles I on January 30, 1649, marked a radical turning […]
The Death of a Protector and the Rise of a Reluctant Successor When Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658, England […]
The Rise of Cromwell’s Bureaucratic Machine The English Republic under Oliver Cromwell was an experiment in governance unlike any other. […]
The Puritan Revolution and the Search for Divine Government The mid-17th century in England was a period of radical upheaval, […]
