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Granger / Shutterstock It’s long been thought that political satire was born in the coffee houses of 18th century London, where waspish gossip was exchanged, Tatler was born and cartoons by the likes of William Hogarth and James Gillray ruffled the feathers of the rich and powerful. Now, a historian is suggesting that the tradition in fact had its roots decades earlier than thought, in Dutch propaganda produced for William of Orange at the time of the deposition of England’s James II. The Times reports on Meredith Hale’s findings, a historian from the University of Exeter, wh...

Romeyn de Hooghe, Sic Itur ad Astra Scilicet, 1688, etching and letterpress, British Museum, London. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved. The Glorious Revolution inspired birth of modern satire long before coffee shop culture, according to new research The arrival of William of Orange in England helped to inspire the birth of modern satire – long before coffee shop culture made the cutting art form fashionable, a new study argues. The golden age of satire in Britain was in the 1740s, but it arrived in the country – via the Netherlands - half a century earlier, when ...