Regicide
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, After the New Model Army crushed the Scots at Preston and brought the curtain down on the Second Civil War, the question still remained: what to do with the King? As I mentioned last week, a Parliament had put its uncertainty on display by simultaneously voting back in January 1648 […]
The Man of Blood
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, Writing about the events that led to the First Civil War, political philosopher James Harrington, who lived through it all, famously observed that it was the dissolution of this government caused the war, not the war the dissolution of this government, by which he meant that King Charles was not […]