Winner of the 2014 Whitfield Prize from the Royal Historical Society for the best first book on British or Irish historyIn the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed to convince Parliament to repeal laws that penalized worshippers...
Sowerby is the latest, and among the most original, of historians who have pointed out that [the Glorious Revolution] was the product of a counterrevolution against the far more "tolerant" proposals James had been putting forward... The key chapters of Making Toleration... offer a fascinating narrative of the endeavors of James's "regulators" (supervisors of parliamentary elections) to revise and re-member borough corporations so that they would...
Scott Sowerby is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.
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