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Author : Anna Keay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0008282048
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.
Author : Ronan Fanning
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0571297412
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein. Bleakly realistic, ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary intransigence, Fatal Path is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
Author : Anna Keay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 140884608X
'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.
Author : Anna Keay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Crown jewels
ISBN : 9780500289822
This text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.
Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312232719
They determined that England would be the dominant nation in the archipelago, that Ireland would remain a bitterly divided society, and that in religion and politics the British would represent between them one of the most varied and dynamic polities on earth." "This second edition includes a new introductory preface in which Ronald Hutton reviews the scholarship published on the period during recent years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1996-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300065961
This authoritative reevaluation of Charles' personal rule yields new insights into his character, reign, politics, religion, foreign policy and finance. In doing so, the book offers a vivid new perspective on the origins of the English Civil War.
Author : Richard Gough
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140433142
Author : Anna Keay
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2021-08-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780008282035
1649. King Charles I had been executed. A quarter of a million had died in the Second English Civil War. Two hundred great houses stood in ruins, with hundreds of villages and towns left battered and broken. The monarchy, the House of Lords and the Church of England were all abruptly abolished. What next? This is the story of 1649 to 1660, the eleven years when England, Wales and later Scotland and Ireland were governed as a republic. In the midst of unprecedented tumult, what was life like for the people of England - both the winners and the losers? Historian Anna Keay explores the decade through the lives of nine people, from Oliver Cromwell, upon whose personality the entire fate of England was said to hinge, through to the likes of John Bradshaw, a relatively minor Cheshire lawyer who was appointed lord president of the high court of justice established to try the King - largely because all the more senior judges refused the task. He would become the only Englishman ever to hand down a sentence of death upon his sovereign. Telling a rich and vivid history in matching style, this is a brilliant new take on the most extraordinary decade in English history, and what happened when a conservative people tried revolution.
Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 000721393X
"The Peasants' Revolt of the summer of 1381 was one of the bloodiest events in English history. Ravaged by disease and poverty, England's villagers rose against their masters for the first time. A ragtag army, led by the mysterious Wat Tyler and the visionary preacher John Ball, was pitted against the fourteen-year-old Richard II and his advisers, who all risked their property and their lives in a desperate battle to save the English crown"--Back cover.
Author : Jonathan Healey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0593311728
AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “[Healy] makes a convincing argument that the turbulent era qualifies as truly ‘revolutionary,’ not simply because of its cascading political upheavals, but in terms of far-reaching changes within society.... Wryly humorous and occasionally bawdy”— The Wall Street Journal The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time—for the only time in history—England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over faith and Parliament asserted itself like never before. There were no boundaries to politics. In fiery, plague-ridden London, in coffee shops and alehouses, new ideas were forged that were angry, populist, and almost impossible for monarchs to control. But the story of this century is less well known than it should be. Myths have grown around key figures. People may know about the Gunpowder Plot and the Great Fire of London, but the Civil War is a half-remembered mystery to many. And yet the seventeenth century has never seemed more relevant. The British constitution is once again being bent and contorted, and there is a clash of ideologies reminiscent of when Roundhead fought Cavalier. The Blazing World is the story of this strange, twisting, fascinating century. It shows a society in sparkling detail. It was a new world of wealth, creativity, and daring curiosity, but also of greed, pugnacious arrogance, and colonial violence.