Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

02.73 - Regicide

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On a cold January afternoon, Charles I walked onto a scaffold outside of the Palace of Whitehall, and he left it in a coffin. The King of England, Ireland, and Scotland was beheaded by his own subjects. No one who started the English Civil War, or any of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, had expected, planned, or hoped that it would lead to this.



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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

  • Charles Spencer, Killers of the King.
  • Philip Baker, 'The Regicide', in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
  • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
  • Harris, T. Rebellion
  • Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold.
  • Healey, J. The Blazing World.
  • MacInnes, A., The British Revolution, 1629-60.
  • Charles Spencer, Killers of the King.
  • Michael J. Braddick, 'War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642-1646', in Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
  • Michael J. Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
  • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
  • Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
  • Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652.
  • Antonia Fraser, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
  • Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed
  • Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
  • Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War
  • Stuart Reid, Crown, Covenant, and Cromwell: The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639-1651.
  • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51


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