Ebook: The Restless Republic

An exceptional book about an exceptional time' JOHN ADAMSON 'Anna Keay has rescued a period of history which for many will have been uncharted territory ... An imaginative triumph' A.N. WILSON 'Deft, confident, deeply learned and provocative' RORY STEWART 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. Marchamont Nedham, the irrepressible newspaper man and...M.F