TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keay,Anna
TI  - The restless republic: Britain without a crown 
SN  - 9780008282028
AV  - DA425 .K42 2022 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-456) and index
N2  - "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 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 puppet master of propaganda. Gerrard Winstanley, who strove for a Utopia of common ownership where no one went hungry. William Petty, the precocious scientist whose mapping of Ireland prefaced the dispossession of tens of thousands. And the indomitable Countess of Derby who defended to the last the final Royalist stronghold on the Isle of Man." - provided by the publisher
ER  -