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Ruling Mann: The Cost of a Kingdom and the People Who Paid It book cover

Ruling Mann

The Cost of a Kingdom and the People Who Paid It

“One of the most corrupt jobs ever witnessed in Parliament”

— Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice of England, House of Lords, 1805

In 1765, the British Parliament forced the sale of the Isle of Man from its feudal lords to the Crown. The debate took eight sitting days. No one spoke for the Manx people. The people themselves discovered their fate only after it was done.

Publication date to be confirmed. This page will be updated when details are available.

 
Rebellious Manx book cover

Rebellious Manx

The moments the Manx people seized their own land

Rebellious Manx tells the story of two seventeenth-century risings, and asks whether they were rebellions at all or the actions of a people refusing to surrender their ancient rights and customs.

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The Great Stanley book cover

The Great Stanley

Yn Stanlagh Mooar

The greatest civil war participant you have never heard of.

The Great Stanley tells the story of James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby and Lord of Mann, together with his wife Charlotte de Trémoille, and their part in the English civil wars.

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The Tripartite Lock book cover

The Tripartite Lock

 

An academic monograph examining the constitutional politics of the Eighteenth century and the impact of growing bureaucracy and political habitus on transatlantic events. Currently under review by Liverpool University Press.

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