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3 days ago · The Kingdom of Great Britain came into being on 1 May 1707, as a result of the political union of the Kingdom of England (which included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland under the Treaty of Union. This combined the two kingdoms into a single kingdom and merged the two parliaments into a single parliament of Great Britain.
1 day ago · At both dates all but two of the churches held a service every Sunday; in 1743 a daily service was held in five churches and prayers twice or thrice weekly in another five; in 1764 there were fewer of these services but they were still to be found in three or four churches.
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5 days ago · Loyalist pamphlets during the invasion scare of 1803, for example, often questioned the nature of the English character (the subject of much of chapter 2) to the point where Semmel concludes that the British self-portrait was ‘ambivalent, problematic, and troubled’ (p. 40).
2 days ago · MARYBONE. Name and ancient situation. The name of this place was anciently called Tiburn, from its situation near a small bourn, or rivulet, formerly called Ayebrook, or Eye-brook, and now Tybourn-brook (fn. 1).
4 days ago · If the earliest centre of the town was indeed, as the evidence indicates, the Mayorhold, it was probably the building of the castle (fn. 25) which caused the centre of gravity to shift eastwards.
3 days ago · By the time of the reign of Henry VII (1485–1509), the king’s council had become the instrument of the crown; it was made up of the Privy Council, the prerogative courts of Chancery, Star Chamber, and High Commission, and their local subsidiaries.
5 days ago · Presbyterianism was reintroduced and limitations placed on monarchy. After severe economic dislocation in the 1690s there were moves that led to political union with England as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.
