When the Victorian Whig historian, Lord Macaulay, touched on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in his magisterial five-volume tome, The History of England (1848), he observed that “we cannot but be struck by its peculiar character”. With most people equating the very notion of “revolution” with radical change, Macaulay remarked that England’s Glorious Revolution had been a preserving revolution that restored the liberties of the English people by overthrowing the autocratic reign of James II.