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Friday, May 29, 2026
Here's why that's a big deal: Sweden announces 16 Gripens for Ukraine -- IAEA reports communications blackout at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- Ukraine strikes Tuapse oil refinery again, hits Russian military targets -- Russian oil refinery reportedly struck by Ukrainian drones in Volgograd ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-29-2026/
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The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!
Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.
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The new issue of History Today is in UK stores from today.
Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, 15th-century Iceland, and more.
Find out what else is inside and order it directly from our shop at https://buff.ly/sJvh2Fi
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This July 12th, consider the possibility that the pioneer of religious toleration in Britain was James II.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674073098
#JamesII #History #BritishHistory #Toleration #EarlyModernHistory #ScottSowerby #July12th
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I was Today Years Old when I learned that Charles I was not the last king chucked off the throne of England by parliament
James II was chucked off by parliament on 23 December 1688 over a concern over the potential for a Catholics vs Protestants civil war
(I did do Medieval and Early Modern History at university, but the Early Modern history was social history - the lives of every day people, religion etc -, not political history - not monarchs and battles)
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On this day in history. King James II murdered the 8th Earl of Douglas in what is now the King's Old Building at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452, 572 years ago today, after a meeting to discuss loyalties and allegiances went wrong. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/stirlingcastle/kingsold.html
#Scotland #StirlingCastle #KingsOldBuilding #JamesII #Murder #OnThisDay #UndiscoveredScotland
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Mons Meg and the Siege of Threave
A final video from Threave for the moment. Even after the murder of William Douglas, the 8th Earl of Douglas, the Douglas Family had continued to defy James the Second, prompting him to bring the fearsome Mons Meg to Galloway to deal with them. #history #video #scotland #galloway #Douglas #BlackDouglas #JamesII #GameOfThrones #MonsMeg
https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/mons-meg-and-the-siege-of-threave/
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On this day in history. King James II murdered the 8th Earl of Douglas in what is now the King's Old Building at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452, 571 years ago today, after a meeting to discuss loyalties and allegiances went wrong. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/stirlingcastle/kingsold.html
#Scotland #StirlingCastle #KingsOldBuilding #JamesII #Murder #OnThisDay #UndiscoveredScotland
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Born #OTD 1617, William Sancroft. Sancroft opposed King James II's Declaration of Indulgence; he was imprisoned for seditious libel against James. Sancroft features in our Lords 1660-1715 volumes, available in print. Find out more about the Declaration: http://ow.ly/6N8o50MlzYa
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In December 1688, just before James II fled the country, Edward Griffin was made a peer. But, in the face of James' decision to flee, was Griffin actually allowed to sit in the Lords Chamber? Find out below👇 @GeorgianLords http://ow.ly/qhil50MoHPM
@histodons @histodon #JamesII #Peers #HouseOfLords #17thCentury
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#OTD 1688 James II fled to France (his second attempt to do so) following the invasion by William of Orange. But this didn't signal a period of festive cheer for the soon to be William III... http://ow.ly/uT3x50GVNCp
#Histodons #Christmas #JamesII -
Just occurred to me that now it’s the “spares” Andrew and Harry who are starring in the #tabloids. In the past, it was the heirs who got the bad publicity. I’m thinking of the #PrinceRegent and #MrsFitzherbert, #EdwardVII & the #MordauntDivorce and the #BaccaratScandal and #EdwardVIII and the #Abdication. Then as heir #JamesII had his fair share of adverse publicity and speculation with the rumour about the baby in the warming pan.
The present lot are quite tame in comparison. #RoyalScandals