The Williamite Universe is organising a political historical symposion on the Glorious Revolution.
From their facebook page:
Monday, May 15th 2017
1688: ‘The Forgotten Revolution’
Summer 1688. Stadtholder William III is preparing an enterprise at the
Palace Het Loo that was to change the world. In deep secret he is
organizing an expedition to England. That fall a Dutch fleet of about
400 vessels will cross the North Sea and landed some 17,000 troops on
the southern coast of England. The following winter William would play a
main role in the ‘Glorious Revolution’, a ‘bloodless’ power shift that
forged England into a parliamentary monarchy with William and Mary on
the throne.
William’s reign not only transformed England
constitutionally, but parliament became a representative power; a
revolution of global importance occurred in government financing;
religious tolerance was obtained by law; and a free press was allowed.
England was set on a path of political stability, growing prosperity and
innovation that ultimately resulted into the Industrial Revolution that
spread and gave Western European economies a significant lead over
other regions.
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his one-day symposium at Palace Het Loo on May
15th, 2017 will focus on William and the Glorious Revolution. Four
historians will speak and discuss the initiation of the revolution, its
course and the ultimateeffects for England, Europe and the world of
today.
Speakers:
Steven Pincus, history professor at Yale University, CT, USA has
specialised in English and European History of the 17 and 18th century.
With his book ‘1988, The First Modern Revolution’ Pincus has drawn
renewed attention to the importance of the Glorious Revolution.
Tony Claydon, history professor at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
wrote a pioneering book on the Glorious Revolution and is biographer of
the King-Stadtholder William III.
David Onnekink is lecturer and
researcher at the University of Utrecht, who specialises in
international relations in the early modern age.
Johan Carel
Bierens de Haan , former Chief Curator of Het Loo Palace. From 2005 to
2010 he held a professorate in heritage at the Free University of
Amsterdam
The moderator will be Fred de Graaf, former mayor of Apeldoorn and former Chairman of the ‘Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal ‘.
The symposium will be organised by the Royal Apeldoorn Foundation in cooperation with Het Loo Palace and Utrecht University.
For information: c.penning@koninklijkapeldoorn.nl
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