The world the English (and Welsh, Scots, Irish) created between the mid-15th and the mid-18th centuries
Friday, January 13, 2012
Rebels and Rulers, Collect Them All!
From a series of 1923 Cigarette Cards entitled Celebrities and their Autographs. Oliver Cromwell (d. 1658) and James, Duke of Monmouth (d. 1685). I think the autographs might look more convincing than the portraits.
Newton Key, Professor emeritus, Eastern Illinois University, is co-author of Early Modern England, 3rd ed. 2020, and co-editor of Sources and Debates in English History, 2nd ed., 2009. Follow on Academia, or Twitter,
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