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Life in Cromwell’s Britain

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What Is the Impact of the 16 50?

The 16 fifties was, in many ways, the decade that foraged modern britain. It supercharged things like the scientific revolution and britain's dramatic international expansionism over the following centuries. Why was why was the 16 50 so important in shaping modernbritain? I think the thing is that when you have a period of great change and and em and of great instability, it means that lots oftehe absolutely sort of rigid ways of doing things historically get get shaken, get thrown up.

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