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Political history of England

  • WhiggismThe word Whiggism emerged in the 1680s as a label for a political faction born from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Lord Shaftesbury formalized these ideas…
  • The Condition of the Working Class in EnglandFriedrich Engels walked the streets of Salford and Manchester between 1842 and 1844. He saw children dying from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, and…