02.73 - Regicide

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.

Join the Mailing List and stay up to date HERE

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

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

This podcast is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on this podcast.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices