Volume VII of John Richard Green’s History of the English People covers the momentous decades from the Exclusion Crisis through the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the mid-Georgian period, encompassing the constitutional settlement, the union with Scotland, the Hanoverian succession, and the era of Walpole and the first party governments. Green’s social focus ensures that political narrative is always grounded in the wider life of the nation.
This volume covers one of the most consequential periods in British constitutional history — the establishment of parliamentary sovereignty and cabinet government. Download the free EPUB for Green’s characteristically vivid account of this transformative era.