TY - BOOK ID - 137012436 TI - Backlash PY - 2020 SN - 0813944449 9780813944449 9780813944425 PB - Charlottesville London DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - History. KW - Anne, KW - Great Britain. KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Great Britain KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Court and courtiers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137012436 AB - "Rachel Carnell tells the story of a backlash against decades of increasingly progressive government in Britain after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The book relates the arrest of a Tory political satirist and Whigs' impeachment of a High Church clergyman and the resulting backlash, with mobs surging the streets. Queen Anne dissolved Parliament, and the new elections brought in a Tory majority who swiftly passed reactionary legislation"-- ER -