Before Victoria: People and Events Discussed in the Victorian Web

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General

• Political & Economic History of Great Britain from the Civil War to the Twentieth Century
• Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present
• British Prime Ministers, 1760-1901
• The British Empire
• The Bullion Committee
• The War of the Spanish Succession or Marlborough's Wars (1702-13)
• The South Sea Bubble

Revolution and Restoration

• The 1689 Bill of Rights
• The Divine Right of Kings
• James I
• James II
• Oliver Cromwell
• The New Model Army
• The Interregnum
• The Restoration
• Jacobites
• Britain and Ireland, 1789-1801
• The Glorious Revolution

Riots and Civil Disorders before the Accession of Victoria

• The Gordon Riots, June 1780
• Riots, Disaffection, and Repression, 1811-19
• The Luddites, 1811-16
• Riots in Sheffield, 1812
• The Spa Fields Riots, 2 December 1816
• The March of the Blanketeers, March 1817
• The Pentrich Rising (the Derbyshire Insurrection), 9 June 1817
• The Peterloo Massacre, 16 August 1819
• Contemporary Accounts of the Peterloo Massacre
• The Six Acts, 1819
• The Cato Street Conspiracy, 23 February 1820

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Last modified 30 April 2007