George II

The Duke of Cumberland takes centre stage at Culloden

Culloden: the bloody end of the Jacobite dream

6 February 2016 9:00 am

What a wretched lot the Stuarts were, the later ones especially, the males at least. James II fled England without…

The German devotion to high culture is quite shaming

26 April 2014 9:00 am

The 300th anniversary of George I coming to the British throne on 1 August 1714 is big news in his…