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.

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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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America, Bureaucracy and the Unseen Mann

An academic monograph examining the constitutional politics and growing bureaucracy of the Eighteenth century and how the Isle of Man represented a missed solution to the Colonial demands. Currently under review by Liverpool University Press.

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