375 years ago today – on 30 January 1649 – King Charles I was executed on the orders of a tiny group of men. Britain’s revolution was complete. The story of the next eleven years is absolutely fascinating, not least because it is barely remembered in Britain today. Oliver Cromwell still has a statue outside the Houses of Parliament (an irony if ever there was one, for he was no lover of parliaments) and the abolition of Christmas is still occasionally recalled, but otherwise those tumultuous years have largely disappeared from the national memory. So, we should be grateful to Anna Keay for her excellent book,
After the King
After the King
After the King
375 years ago today – on 30 January 1649 – King Charles I was executed on the orders of a tiny group of men. Britain’s revolution was complete. The story of the next eleven years is absolutely fascinating, not least because it is barely remembered in Britain today. Oliver Cromwell still has a statue outside the Houses of Parliament (an irony if ever there was one, for he was no lover of parliaments) and the abolition of Christmas is still occasionally recalled, but otherwise those tumultuous years have largely disappeared from the national memory. So, we should be grateful to Anna Keay for her excellent book,