Author: Spencer PercevalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The Church Question in Ireland. Speech as Prepared by ... Spencer Perceval, for the Debate on the First Roman Catholic Petition to the United Parliament, May, 1805. Now First Published, ... with an Introduction, ... Notes and Comments by D. Perceval
Author: Spencer PercevalBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: List of Works Relating to Ireland
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
Author: Andro LinklaterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408828405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, he was tried and hanged. Here, for the first time, the historian Andro Linklater looks past the conventional image of Bellingham as a 'deranged businessman' and portrays him as an individual, driven by the anxieties of his family life, by his yearning for respectability and by the raw emotions that convulsed his home town of Liverpool. But as the evidence accumulates, a wider, darker picture emerges. The wildly unpopular Perceval dominated political life as both Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He, above all, was responsible for oppressing Luddite protestors, for Britain's naval blockade of Napoleonic France, for risking war with the United States. And, almost single-handedly, he was crushing Liverpool's illegal slave-trade. John Bellingham was not alone in hating the prime minister. But did he act alone when he shot Spencer Perceval? And if not, who aided him? Two hundred years later, Andro Linklater examines Bellingham's personal records, his wife's letters and the reports of the Bow Street Runners, London's first detective agency, uncovering strange payments made to the murderer and an untouched historical trail. Catching the threads of conspiracy amid the fevered tone of an age of intense debate over slavery, security of the state and personal liberty, Linklater brilliantly deconstructs the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - to offer a fresh perspective on Britain and the Western world at a critical moment in history.
Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne
Author: Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimésPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Ireland, the Irish Language and Literature, Etc
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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