Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13), it demonstrates that public officials faced multiple incompatible demands, but that political partisanship helped to prioritise them, and to hammer out settlements that embodied a version of the national interest.
If you enjoy finding out more about our country’s rich history, then you’ll love BRITAIN magazine – the official magazine for Visit Britain. Learn more about our kings and queens, heroes and villains, castles and cathedrals, stately homes and gardens, countryside and coastline… and much more besides. Each issue is packed with features that showcase Britain at her best – and is full of ideas on where to go, what to see and where to stay.
As the UK’s best selling military history title, Britain at War is dedicated in exploring every aspect of Britain’s involvement in conflicts from the turn of the 20th century through to modern day. From World War I to the Falklands, World War II to Iraq, readers are able to relive decisive moments in Britain’s history through fascinating insight combined with rare and previously unseen photography.
As the UK’s best selling military history title, Britain at War is dedicated in exploring every aspect of Britain’s involvement in conflicts from the turn of the 20th century through to modern day. From World War I to the Falklands, World War II to Iraq, readers are able to relive decisive moments in Britain’s history through fascinating insight combined with rare and previously unseen photography.
Discover Britain is Britain’s leading historic travel magazine, created with passion and designed to engage, inspire and motivate our readers to discover the nation’s finest heritage sites. Combining the traveler's firsthand experience of the present with the historian's expert knowledge of the past, DISCOVER BRITAIN is your most trustworthy guide to historic Britain as it lives on today. Published bimonthly.
