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Document A Nation in Embryo? Paine on Freedom & Tyranny

These extracts, from the first in a series of pamphlets written by Thomas Paine between 1776 and 1783, really illustrate Paine's political...

American Revolution, Georgian Britain, Thomas Paine, eighteenth century history, common sense, 1776 view
Image collection Tory satire on American Revolution

The third of three cartoons on Britain and the American revolutionary movement

This print also takes a Tory approach to the conflict, in...

American Revolution, Georgian Britain, Thomas Paine, john wilkes, Britannia view
Link Common Sense by Thomas Paine 1776

The entire text of Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet originally pubished anonymously on January 10 1776. It was intended as an easily understood...

American Revolution, British history, Eighteenth Century, Thomas Paine, American history, History view
Document Contemporary Views on Paine

And here two contrasting contemporary views on Paine, from very different ends of the political spectrum.

Georgian Britain, eighteenth century history, Thomas Paine, The rights of man view
Document Paineite Radicalism

Publication of Paine’s Rights of Man in 1791, in response to Burke’s Reflections, compounded the general sense of unease a notch more, as Paine’s...

Thomas Paine, The rights of man, george washington, Georgian Britain, Eighteenth Century view
Audio Quiz 1, People & Parties - Answers

Answers to first quiz for Monarchy and Revolution 1625-1815 course.

Charles I, English Civil War, Thomas Paine, Cromwell, American Revolution, Robespierre, Napoleon, French Revolution view
Audio Quiz 1, People & Parties - Questions

First quiz questions for Monarchy and Revolution 1625-1815 course

English Civil War, Charles I, Cromwell, Thomas Paine, American Revolution, Robespierre, French Revolution, Napoleon view
Audio Quiz 2, Dates & Places - Questions

Second quiz questions for Monarchy and Revolution 1625-1815 course.

Charles I, English Civil War, Robespierre, French Revolution, American Revolution, Thomas Paine, Napoleon, Cromwell view
Document The London Corresponding Society

Unsurprisingly the Paineite London Corresponding Society came under frequent attack for its allegedly radical aims.

Here we see one of...

British history, Georgian Britain, Thomas Paine, 1794, LCS view
Link Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

American Revolution, American Independence, French Revolution, Thomas Paine view
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