Restoration

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Restoration is simply the noun form of the verb 'to restore', in any of its senses. In British history, however, it has one particular use as a proper noun - the Restoration - labelling the end of the Commonwealth in 1660, and the return to these shores of Charles II - the occasion which marked the restoration not only of the Stuart dynasty, but the whole institution of monarchy itself.