TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keay,Anna
TI  - The restless republic: Britain without a crown 
SN  - 9780008282059
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
N1  - Originally published: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; The forced revolution -- A new England -- Utopia -- The ebbing tide -- Counter-revolution -- Virago -- The infamous castle of misery -- Mercurius politicus -- Tongues like angels -- Cornhell in the west -- Plough and go to market -- Decimation -- Ingenious friends -- The end of Ireland -- A life in fire -- On the watch tower -- This Lyon rouzed
N2  - "In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the 'useless and dangerous' House of Lords discarded. The people, it was announced, were now the sovereign force in the land. What this meant, and where it would lead, no one knew. The Restless Republic is the story of the extraordinary decade that followed. It takes as its guides the people who lived through those years. Among them is Anna Trapnel, the daughter of a Deptford shipwright whose visions transfixed the nation. John Bradshaw, the Cheshire lawyer who found himself trying the King"--Publisher's description
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