I awake one morning with the feeling of a swollen tongue. A tongue feeling too large for my mouth. Topped with the ruggedness of hard coarse sandpaper coated with the hot burning sand straight from the Sahara Desert. As I glided the tip of my tongue across the roof of my mouth from back to front, and gently down the back of my front teeth. I felt my tongue slit in two as if it was a fork in the road, and each of those slits were split into two tails. As my tongue left passing my lips, I heard the same sounds in my head every day of snakes rattling and hissing, UNTIL

Part of the "Studies in Modern History" series, this text examines the origins and nature off party politics in England covering the period 1660 to 1715. Looks at the nature of the struggle between Whigs and Tories and the reasons why such rivalries cut so deep into English society at this time.