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From: History Today
Date: 19991201
Author:Poole, Robert

Robert Poole revisits the `Calendar Riots' of 1752 and suggests they are a figment of historians' imagination.

THE EARLY 1750s ARE THE SARGASSO Sea of the eighteenth-century. The ship of state lay becalmed between the last throes of Jacobitism in the 1740s and the first stirrings of radicalism in the 1760s, between the last political aftershocks of the seventeenth century and the first rumblings of the age of reform. Birds, claimed Horace Walpole, might have made their nests in the Speaker's chair safe from any disturbance by political debate. The general election of 1754 was ...

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