"In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing than Chaos and Old Night. (Yet conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy 'change is the means of our preservation.')"
-Russell Kirk
Eamon Duffy, author of Stripping of the Altars, offers his alternative interpretation on the reign of Queen Mary Tudor, in contrast to the received "wisdom" of Whig historiography.
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