A proposal to remove William Penn’s statue from a Philadelphia park was pulled after public outcry. Penn’s biographer says his Quaker religion may well have disapproved of such a statue.
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At least one second daughter of a second son of the British monarch has ended up on the throne in her own right.
Royal PR in pictures started with the Stuarts 400 years ago.
There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes.
Had the Jacobites triumphed at Sheriffmuir in 1715, Nicola Sturgeon would now be Scottish prime minister.
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