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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

"And who were these people?" - Edward Burgett Welsh (1881-1968)

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"... And who were these people? Huguenots from France; men of Reformed faith—continental Presbyterians, that is, from the Palatinate an...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Tad Stoermer on nationalistic "mythology dressed up as education"

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 He's speaking about America, but it could be any western entity, including Ireland...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

The Greenwich Tea Burning of 1774 – and the Ewing sword from the Boyne

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Boston gets all the attention, but almost exactly a year after the Boston Tea Party , there was another almost identical event, this time at...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

The Fort Gower Resolves, Virginia Gazette, 5 November 1774

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A group of militia officers returning from Dunmore’s War composed the Fort Gower Resolves  in the relative remoteness of the western bank of...
Friday, February 06, 2026

"No Kings"? 1776 was a Revolution against Parliament

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Pic above from this website. The "No Kings" protests in the USA over the past months are a curious contradiction. It's a great...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Edward Rutledge, First Continental Congress, 28 September 1774 – "I came with an idea of getting a Bill of Rights."

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His father was from Ulster, some say County Tyrone. Rutledge was just 24 or 25 when, at the First Continental Congress on 28 September 1774,...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Livingston, Smith & Scott – it sounds like a law firm and it pretty much was. New York, 1765.

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They were known as the "Presbyterian Whig Triumvirate" – Williiam Livingston, William Smith, and John Morin Scott. They founded t...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

"Gallant Resistance made by their Forefathers " – The Pennsylvania Gazette, 17 June 1756

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Recommended reading in America in 1756, almost exactly 20 years before the Declaration of Independence . John Locke , Algernon Sydney , The ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Isaac Barré's 1765 Speech in Parliament – "Sons of Liberty"

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It wasn't Britain v America, Liberty v Tyranny - on a transatlantic scale. Here's an audio recording of the famous speech given in t...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Tad Stoermer on the mythological retro-fitting of Thomas Paine

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Brilliant summary here. This year, the 250th anniversary, there's going to be a lot of myth-reinforcement. Few will be interested in cha...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Revolutionary Psalms – Isaac Watts, the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution

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Isaac Watts' The Psalms of David was first published in 1719. His father, also called Isaac, had been a local 'nonconformist' ...
Friday, January 16, 2026

John Adams on David Hume – "varnishing over the crimes of the Stuarts" (King Charles II and King James II)

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Most people today have little or no idea about the 'Stuart' kings' tyrannies of the 1600s. It is easier to promote the concept o...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

"and can speak broad Scotch" – from Magheralin to Maryland, escaping with a man from Madagascar - 1739

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St Mary's County on the western shore of Maryland is just across the Chesapeake Bay from Somerset County , the location of the first ma...
Monday, January 05, 2026

Prof. Gordon S. Wood on how 1776 was born in 1688 - "a revolt on behalf of the English Constitution"

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Professor Gordon S Wood is one of the world's foremost experts on the Declaration of Independence. In this new podcast clip he summaris...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Ulster-Scots speech in Colonial America: 1700s newspaper sources

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Here's a potentially rich seam of research which, as far as I know, has never been looked at. The pre-1776 newspapers are gradually bein...