A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851 by William Gibson

A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851 by William Gibson

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How Great Britain was born - from the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 to the Great Exhibition in London of 1851.

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A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851 by William Gibson

How Great Britain was born - from the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 to the Great Exhibition in London of 1851.

Praise for the author:
'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades'

-- Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and Episcopal History
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University specialising in the history of Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has written widely on the eighteenth-century church. He is the author of James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops and a biography of Bishop Benjamin Hoadly. He is also Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History.
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ISBN 13 9781845297152
ISBN 10 1845297156
Title A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851
Author William Gibson
Series Brief Histories
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2011-06-23
Number of pages 368
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