Boston 1775

At the History of Parliament blog, the Georgian Lords welcomed Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri of the University of Aberdeen to discuss the eques...

Here’s another primary source on the “Powder Alarm” of 1774 that I’ve quoted before, but only eight years ago . These are two entries fro...

John Sawbridge (1732–1795) was of the radical Whigs who joined the Rev. John Horne in supporting John Wilkes during the 1760s, forming th...

George Grenville was the prime minister of Great Britain in 1765, when he pushed Parliament to pass the Stamp Act . The Duke of Portlan...

As the year draws to a close, I’m looking back on some of the notable events of 1770 that I didn’t discuss on their Sestercentennial anniver...

On 8 Aug 1801, the Impartial Observer of Providence, said to be a “short-lived Jeffersonian paper," ran this exclusive news item: ...

Earlier in the summer I took note of the online edition of the diary of the Rev. Ebenezer Parkman of Westboro . One of the events Park...

As stated in a passage I quoted a couple of days ago, soon after Charles Townshend died, his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer was offe...

After the end of the siege of Boston , Gen. George Washington ordered Col. Henry Knox (shown here) to move most of the Continental Army’...