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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, James VII & II, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Purcell, The Churchills, The Stuarts