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Editorial

What has posterity ever done for us?

In a debate in the late eighteenth century in the Irish House of Commons on the vote of a grant, which was recommended by the chancellor of the exchequer as one not likely to be felt burdensome for many years to come, opponents argued that the House had no right to load posterity with a … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, Editorial, Issue 3 (May/June 2012), Volume 20

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