Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

04.01 - The Return of the King

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Charles II Stuart returns to London, and the Restoration tries to turn the clock back in England, Scotland, and Ireland. But a generation of civil war and revolution is not something that can be easily reversed.

  • Alice Hunt, Republic, 2024.
  • Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.
  • Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.
  • Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.
  • Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic, 2020.
  • Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.
  • Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022.
  • Rebecca Rideal, 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire, 2016.
  • Micheál Ó Siochrú, God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the conquest of Ireland, 2008.
  • Charles Wilson, England’s Apprenticeship: 1603-1763, 1975.
  • Charles Spencer, Killers of the King


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