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From being the ruler of an obscure German electorate George I suddenly became king of on the most powerful nations in the world in his fifties. He was never popular in his new kingdom but established a constitutional monarchy which has survived to today. This course was run at the City Lit on Saturday 16th… Read more »
- Posted on: March 17, 2020
- Featured in History, Kings and Queens
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This tag: Art History
The Lives and Importance of women in Republican and Imperial Ancient Rome and Roman Britain including the importance of the worship of goddesses. This course was run at the City Lit and British Museum on Saturday 2nd March 2019. It covered the contrasting roles of women in different parts of Roman society in the Republic… Read more »
- Posted on: March 16, 2020
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Ancient History, Ancient Rome, British Museum, Etruscans, European History, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Women's history
This tag: Art History
Life and times of James VII & II Although his reign was one of the shortest in Britain James had a distinguished career before becoming king and an intriguing one in exile. A Catholic convert he was doomed to fail in Protestant Britain. This course was run at the City Lit on Saturday 10th March… Read more »
- Posted on: March 29, 2018
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- Also tagged British Kings and Queens, Catholic History, English Composer, European History, Glorious Revolution, Greenwich, Jacobites, James VII & II, King James II, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Purcell, The Churchills, The Stuarts