SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOOPER PRIZE'every page is shot through with humour and humanity' - Jessie Child, GuardianThe story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'.
Antonia Fraser brings colour ...
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