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0008282021

The restless republic : Britain without a crown.

Author: Keay, Anna.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Classification: 941.063

Publisher: London : William Collins, 2022.

ISBN: 9780008282028 (hbk.) : 25.00

Notes:

1649. King Charles I had been executed. A quarter of a million had died in the Second English Civil War. Two hundred great houses stood in ruins, with hundreds of villages and towns left battered and broken. The monarchy, the House of Lords and the Church of England were all abruptly abolished. What next? This is the story of 1649 to 1660, the eleven years when England, Wales and later Scotland and Ireland were governed as a republic. In the midst of unprecedented tumult, what was life like for the people of England - both the winners and the losers? Historian Anna Keay explores the decade through the lives of nine people, from Oliver Cromwell, upon whose personality the entire fate of England seemed to hinge, through to the likes of John Bradshaw, a relatively minor Cheshire lawyer who was appointed to try the King.