Miscellaneous
Age of Oligarchy in the British history
On July 11, 2021 by trappedinthe18thNotes: For all but a few relatively brief interludes between 1722 and 1760 most of the real political power and decision-making in Britain was concentrated in very few hands, and those hands, apart from the early Hanoverian kings themselves, were predominantly landed and aristocratic as well as partisan. (Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi: The Age