Things that Didn't Happen

An innovative exploration of fake news and alternative reality in late Stuart and early Hanoverian political and literary culture, from the Popish Plot and the South Sea Bubble to the Dunciad.

James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales born in 1688, was not a commoner''s child smuggled into the queen''s birthing chamber in a warming pan, but many people said he was. In 1708, the same prince d...