On June 30, 1688, seven English noblemen—two earls, a viscount, a bishop, and three barons—sent a covert letter to William of Orange, inviting him to intervene militarily in England and promising their support in overthrowing King James II. Known to history as the “Immortal…
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On June 8, 793, the tranquil monastic community of Lindisfarne—an island off the northeast coast of Northumbria—was shattered by an act of violence so sudden, so foreign, and so brutal that it marked, in the minds of chroniclers and modern historians alike, the beginning…
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