HIST 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anglicisation, Mughal Empire, Toleration
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Lecture 14 - mid-hanoverian politics and the jacobite reb. The rebellion was the last time that the jacobites threatened the hanoverian state. Britain is poised to become in large scale warfare. It is a story about large egos which wasn"t different from politics of the. 18th century, but was marked by the entrenchment of walpole of prime. The term prime minister was an insult, but at the end of walpole"s reign it became acceptable and entrenched in the constitution. Walpole was constantly attacked, for example in the beggar"s opera in addition to alexander pope who wrote poetry about the corruption of the day. In the political context there are key areas of opposition to walpole. From the heir to the throne, frederick. The court became a focus of opponents to walpole. Notion of the patriot wing, a term used to define patriotism and opposed to what they saw as walpole"s supposed corruption although they didn"t do anything different themselves.
