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Illustrated with
playing cards from a set produced in 1685 to commemorate the
defeat of the Monmouth and Argyll Rebellions.The Great Rebellion
of 1685 saw the last mass bloodshed on English soil; first
at the battle of Sedgemoor and then at Assize courts all over
the South West. Why did it all happen? And who was rebelling
against whom? Geoff Sawers sifts through differing histories
and contemporary sources to retell the story of the rebellion
and place it within the wider context of British history.
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