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Subtitle: reconsidering the impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell
By: edited by Mark Knights
Contributors: Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell for The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444361872
Subjects: Politics and government; Trials, litigation; Religion and politics; Public opinion; Great Britain. Parliament; Great Britain; History
Notes: All but two of the articles in this volume were originally papers given at a conference,  held at the Palace ofWestminster, on the 300th anniversary of the verdict given against Dr Henry Sacheverell on 23 March 1710.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the view from 1710 / Mark Knights; title: The current state of Sacheverell scholarship / W.A. Speck; title: The spin doctor : Sacheverell's trial speech and political performance in the divided society / Brian Cowan; title: The "end of censorship" and the politics of toleration, from Locke to Sacheverell / Geoff Kemp; title: Sacheverell's harlots : non-resistance on paper and in practice / Eiwen E.C. Nicholson; title: Irish Tories and victims of Whig persecution : Sacheverell fever by proxy / D.W. Hayton; title: Addison's empire: Whig conceptions of empire in the early 18th century document / Steve Pincus; title: A non-resisting, passively obedient revolution : Lord North and Grey and the Tory response to the Sacheverell impeachment / Danie Szechi.