A group of five talks on the Restoration
2-The City. the NaT* and the Empire by E. E. Rich
Professor of Imperial and Naval History
In the University of Cambridge, Master of St. Catharine College
The Restoration changed England's' old colonial system.' A small band of courtiers with close contacts in the City and experience of naval and imperial administration beat the Dutch at their own game and prepared the next great national rivalry, with France. How and ,i why did this happen?