5 November 1688 A.D.
(Dutch Calvinistic) King
William III Lands at Torbay, Devon—England’s “Glorious Revolution”
A 45-minute discussion
between Mr. Bragg and some historians.
Bragg, Melvyn. “The Glorious Revolution.” BBC
Radio 4. 19 Apr 2001. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547fk. Accessed 3 Sept
2014.
The Glorious Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and
guests discuss the the Glorious Revolution. In 1688, with a fair wind behind
him and no naval opposition in front, William of Orange and his Dutch fleet
sailed safely into Torbay on the South coast and thus began a period of history
known - in England at least - as The Glorious Revolution. The story goes that
the English, fed up with their Catholic King James II and alarmed at the
prospect of a Catholic succession, ‘invited’ William to come to England and
save Parliament, Protestantism and the rights of ordinary citizens. William was
cheered all the way to London where, with the backing of Parliament and the
people, he and his wife Mary were installed as joint sovereign monarchs of
England, Ireland and Scotland. Victorian historians like Macaulay claimed that
this was the era that defined British democracy, but how much of the spirit of
1688 is enwrapped within our unwritten Constitution? Were the events of 1688
really either Glorious or Revolutionary? With John Spurr, Reader in History at
the University of Wales, Swansea; Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in Economic and
Social History at the University of Leicester; Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow and
Director of Studies at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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