The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.

https://www.historytoday.com/magazine

Repubblica.it: “Re Carlo e Trump sono cugini alla lontana, discendono entrambi dal Conte di Lennox”

Lo confermerebbe il biografo del sovrano e anche un’inchiesta del “Daily Mail” secondo la quale i due avrebbero in comune una parentela con un pronipote di re Giacomo II di Scozia

King Charles and Trump are distant cousins, both descend from the Count of Lennox.

This would be confirmed by the sovereign’s biographer and also by an investigation by the “Daily Mail,” according to which the two shared kinship with a great-nephew of King James II of Scotland.

#Trump #the“DailyMail #JamesII #Scotland

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/04/28/news/re_carlo_donald_trump_cugini_parentela_nobile_scozzese_conte_lennox-425311741/

The new issue of History Today is in UK stores from today.

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, 15th-century Iceland, and more.

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This July 12th, consider the possibility that the pioneer of religious toleration in Britain was James II.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674073098

#JamesII #History #BritishHistory #Toleration #EarlyModernHistory #ScottSowerby #July12th

I was Today Years Old when I learned that Charles I was not the last king chucked off the throne of England by parliament

James II was chucked off by parliament on 23 December 1688 over a concern over the potential for a Catholics vs Protestants civil war

(I did do Medieval and Early Modern History at university, but the Early Modern history was social history - the lives of every day people, religion etc -, not political history - not monarchs and battles)

#EarlyModernHistory #JamesII

On this day in history. King James II murdered the 8th Earl of Douglas in what is now the King's Old Building at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452, 572 years ago today, after a meeting to discuss loyalties and allegiances went wrong. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/stirlingcastle/kingsold.html

#Scotland #StirlingCastle #KingsOldBuilding #JamesII #Murder #OnThisDay #UndiscoveredScotland

Mons Meg and the Siege of Threave

A final video from Threave for the moment. Even after the murder of William Douglas, the 8th Earl of Douglas, the Douglas Family had continued to defy James the Second, prompting him to bring the fearsome Mons Meg to Galloway to deal with them.  #history #video #scotland #galloway #Douglas #BlackDouglas #JamesII #GameOfThrones #MonsMeg

https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/mons-meg-and-the-siege-of-threave/

https://youtu.be/F5yBRWrSQyU

#BattleOfTheBoyne #Ireland #IrishHistory #Irish #WilliamOfOrange #JamesII #BoyneValley #history #EuropeanHistory #WilliamiteWar #BoyneRiver #OldbridgeHouse