History GCSE
Personal rule
What Personal rule means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Personal rule
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The period from 1629 to 1640 when Charles I governed without Parliament.
Topics that use Personal rule
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- Parliament as a law-making body
- Parliamentary pressure under Elizabeth I
- Political parties and parliamentary monarchy in the 1700s
- Reasons for the 1688 Revolution
- Religion and the break with Rome
- Abolition of the monarchy
- Growth of royal power
- Parliament under William III and Anne
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