In Our Time: The Hanoverian Succession

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the intense political activity at the turn of the 18th Century, when many politicians in London went to great lengths to find a Protestant successor to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland and others went to equal lengths to oppose them. With Professor Emeritus at Trier University and Former Director of the German Historical Institute in London Andreas Gestrich, Professor of British History at the University of Liverpool Elaine Chalus and Professor of History at the University of Warwick Mark Knights