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First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002
Published in Penguin Books 2011
Copyright © Tristram Hunt, 2002
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Picture credit abbreviations:
BAL Bridgeman Art Library
BL British Library
NPG National Portrait Gallery
WA Weidenfeld Archive
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ISBN: 978-0-14-196281-8
Introduction
I King Charles I: Man and Monarch
II Charles I and Scotland: Kingdoms in Collision
III King and Parliament: The Breakdown
IV King or Country?: Choosing Sides
V Country in Conflict: This War without an Enemy
VI A Brave, Bad Man
VII Saturn’s Children
VIII Civil War to Revolution
IX Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer and Public Enemy
X A World Turned Upside Down
XI The Lord Protector
Bibliography
Index
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Tristram Hunt is one of Britain’s best known young historians. Educated at Cambridge and Chicago Universities, he is lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. A leading historical broadcaster, he has authored numerous series for BBC radio and television and Channel 4. He is also a regular contributor to The Times, the Guardian and the Observer.
The Lord hath done such things amongst us as have not been known in the world these thousand years
OLIVER CROMWELL, 27 January 1654
I would like to thank Anthony Cheetham for suggesting the idea for this book and my editors Michele Hutchison and Ion Trewin for making it happen so calmly. At Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Roisin Heycock, Laura Searle, Alex Knights and Victoria Webb were invaluable in marshalling the vast array of documents. For his help in discovering the more obscure texts of the period and for his excellent knowledge of mid-seventeenth century literature and religious heterodoxy, my thanks to Simon Dyton. And for his intricate grasp of seventeenth-century portraiture and iconography, Tom Graves. I would also like to thank my agent, Georgina Capel; Alan Clements at WarkClements for re-igniting my interest in the war of the three kingdoms; Professor John Morrill, University of Cambridge; Professor Blair Worden, University of Sussex; Susan and Richard Griffin; the staff of the Rare Books Room, Cambridge Library; and the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge.
