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The Age of George III

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The later Eighteenth Century was a time of change and conflict in Britain. This web presents some of the major themes of the period 1760-1830.

George III became King in 1760 and reigned until his death in 1820. His son George ruled the country as Prince Regent from 1811 until 1820, because of the King's incapacity to rule. In 1820, George IV became king in his own right.

List of Primary Sources	The Eighteenth Century Constitution	Reform in the 18th Century
Ireland Select Timeline 1760-1850 Overview 1760-1880 The Williamite Penal Laws Land-holding in Ireland Ireland 1760-89 Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal (1729) Henry Flood Henry Grattan The Volunteer Movement The Marquis of Rockingham and the Wicklow Volunteers Catholic Emancipation	Ministries Ministerial Instability 1760-70 Newcastle's ministry Bute's ministry Grenville's ministry Rockingham's ministries Chatham's ministry Grafton's ministry Lord North's Ministry 1770-82 Fox-North Coalition Shelburne's ministry Pitt the Younger1783-1806 Addington's ministry Lord Grenville Portland's ministry Spencer Perceval's ministry Lord Liverpool's ministry	American Affairs A chronology of events 1750-70 The Origins of the American War of Independence The New Policy for America Conciliation and Confrontation 1765-70 The Slide to War: 1770-76 The Boston Massacre The Tea Act 1773 The Boston Tea Party The Coercive Acts The Quebec Act 1774 Lexington and Concord Common Sense The War of Independence The British Army The American Army Declaration of Independence Was there a Transatlantic revolution? Model essay: What impact did affairs in America have upon British politics? MAP: opening phase MAP: northern colonies 1775-7 MAP: The end of the War
Political Personalities This topic page includes Prime Ministers and other personalities of this period	Britain and India Historical overview Robert Clive The Tea Act Lord North's Regulating Act for India Pitt and India Pitt's India Act British attitudes towards India Why was Britain able to take control of India? Cornwallis Wellesley Minto	The period of peace 1783-1793 Rockingham's second ministry Shelburne's Ministry (1782-3) The Fox-North Coalition (1783) Pitt in Peacetime A timeline Pitt's early political career The background to Pitt's first ministry Pitt and India The India Act 1784 Pitt's commercial policies Pitt's taxation policies The 1785 Reform Bill The Regency Crisis 1789 Pitt's foreign policy
Eighteenth Century ministries

The Age of the French Wars
FRANCE A chronology of the French Revolution The French Republican Calendar A very brief history of the causes and course of the French Revolution An outline of events in the French Revolution Phases of the French Revolution Declaration of the Rights of Man Napoleonic France 1799-1804 Europe in 1810 (map) The Peninsular Campaigns The Moscow Campaign 1812 The Hundred Days Portraits of Napoleon Reasons for Napoleon's defeat Marshall Liu Bocheng's Taboos of War	BRITAIN The impact of the French Revolution in Britain The impact of the French Revolution on Pitt and the government Thomas Paine and the French Revolution. Revolutionary Societies Reform Clubs Corresponding Societies The Sheffield Corresponding Society Domestic policy 1793-1801 Repressive legislation Pitt at war - Pitt's Foreign policy The French Wars 1792-1806 Addington's ministry 1801-1804 The first coalition against France The second coalition against France The third coalition against France The French Wars after Pitt 1806-1812 A comparison of Wellington and Napoleon as military leaders.

The Peel Web takes up the story of events in Britain in the period 1830-50.

Links to other related sites

The Victorian Web is a site located at Brown University, Rhode Island and at the National University of Singapore. It has information on many aspects of Victorian History
The Irish Museum site is located in Waterford and has an excellent section on the Famine besides much other material on Irish history
Victorian Web Sites. This is a list of web sites for this period.
See this web site for links to numerous books on the Napoleonic wars
The Peel Society's Home page
The Tamworth Heritage Trust Home Page
An extensive site on the History and Heritage of Birmingham may be found by clicking here
"Letters from the Past" is a fascinating web site containing transcripts of original correspondence with thorough, clear annotations.
The United Kingdom web site of the European Regional Directory provides many links to related sites.
This site covers English history from 802 to the present.
See this site for an extensive collection of photgraphs of Queen Victoria and her times.

aims to unlock the secrets of the city, leading you to places of interest that most people don't realise exist.

The Gaspée incident during the lead-up to the American War of Independence is detailed in the following sites:
The Bucklin Society site
The Gaspée web site
The Diary Junction is a new internet resource providing information on, and links for, over 300 historical and literary diarists
The Georgian Index is an excellent site for resources on the Georgian period.
The Robert Owen Museum site is HERE -- http://www.robert-owen-museum.org.uk/

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