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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
- Featured in History, Kings and Queens
- Also tagged Art History, British Kings and Queens, Catholic History, English Composer, European History, Glorious Revolution, Greenwich, Jacobites, King James II, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Purcell, The Churchills, The Stuarts