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It is high treason in British law to 'imagine' the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of Georgeā¦
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Poor George III: ridiculed in caricatures and the object of attempted assassinations!
This enormous book is a real page-turner. Its aim is to show that the changing meanings of words had a huge impact on the politics of the 1790s in Britain. The fourteenth-century statute of treason listed among its crimes that of āimagining the kingās death.ā
In the reign of Edward III, that meant actually planning the death of the monarch, but by the 1790s, the word āimagineā had taken on the modern definition of āenvisagingā or āfantasising.ā This much wider definition of āimaginingā had dire consequences for reformersā¦
From Emma's list on British political debate in the age of revolutions.
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