Episode 2: Party Politics 1714-1785

In Episode 2, Dr Robin Eagles (History of Parliament), examines the birth of Britain’s two party system in the form of the Whigs and the Tories; two parties, whose rivalry would define politics in Britain from the Restoration and Glorious Revolution to the middle of the Victorian Age.

During this period we witness the rising importance of the House of Commons, the resulting significance of the role of Prime Minister, and how defeat in the American Revolutionary War led to a new rising star: William Pitt the Younger.

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