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1688 and 1888: Victorian Society and the Bicentenary of the Glorious Revolution
Ist Teil von
The Journal of British studies, 2011-10, Vol.50 (4), p.892-916
Ort / Verlag
New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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For historians of the "Glorious Revolution," the centenary of William of Orange's fateful landing in England symbolizes how the events of 1688, and their constitutional outcomes the following year, retained a profound importance in eighteenth-century culture and politics. Here, Rogers argues that although historians generally contrast the lack of commemoration of 1688 in 1888 with the fervent debates and widespread commemoration of 1788, this misses the extensive evidence available through underused local newspapers and other local sources. In fact, 1888 was commemorated with great passion but in limited circles, often sectarian and often with local bases, to ends such as Unionism or the promotion of denominational education. The year 1688 had thus become by 1888 a symbol of Protestant causes, rather than the rallying point for both radicals and Tory constitutionalists that it had been in 1788.