Lucy Worsley, having covered the Wars of the Roses, the “Glorious Revolution” and Britain in India, has returned with a further series. This time, the episodes earlier this year having been about the Reformation, the Armada and Queen Anne, she covers the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, reversing the contemporaneous “spin” on the French Revolution, the Regency and the Russian Revolution.

As ever, the presenter is engaging, tries hard to conquer her rhotacism and enjoys dressing up to illustrate her points.


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  2. […] Other European nations, with or without Parliaments of their own ,had similar institutions to the Three Estates. France, in particular, had their Estates General, formed in 1302 and called on various occasions right up to 1789, before it evolved into their National Assembly, at the outset of the Revolution. […]

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