Whig
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Whig or Whigs may refer to:
Parties and factions
[edit]In the British Isles
[edit]- Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries
- Whiggism, the political philosophy of the British Whig party
- Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
- Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig faction
- A nickname for the Liberal Party, the UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s
- The Whig Party, a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014
- Whig government, a list of British Whig governments
- Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history
- A pejorative nickname for the Kirk Party, a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- Whiggamore Raid, a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September 1648
In the United States
[edit]- A term used at the time of the American Revolution for patriots (supporters of the revolution against England)
- Whig Party (United States), a major political party which operated from 1834 to 1856
In Liberia
[edit]- True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980
Music
[edit]- The Whigs (band), a 2000s garage rock band
- The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band
Newspapers
[edit]- Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
- The Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, originally named the British Whig
- Brownlow's Whig, an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles
- Quincy Herald-Whig of Quincy, Illinois, United States
Other uses
[edit]- American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University
- White House Iraq Group, also known as the White House Information Group
- Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove
- WHIG-CD, a low-power television station (channel 30, virtual 31) licensed to serve Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States; see List of television stations in North Carolina