On 30th January, Charles I went to the scaffold, the first king to be publicly tried and executed by his... more

I am about to start a new series for Shedcast members, called Birth of Britain. It takes British history from... more

Once the decision was taken to put Charles on trial, the Commissiobners agonised about the detail at Westminster; the trial... more

The New Model, Levellers and Radical MPs reacted with steely determination to the adoption of the Newport treaty. It was... more

In July. Hamilton launched his army of Scots across the border, in confident expectation that his 14,000 would be swelled... more

If the people of England had gone to war to build a better world, by January 1648 they were seriously... more

In November 1647 at Corkbush field near Ware, Fairfax faced a dangerous threat to army unity - the work of... more

Following the attenpt by parliament to close the army down without pay, and the resulting August 1647 coup, the army... more

In July, England had the prospect of king, Fairfax and Army triumphantly entering London with a new, open and tolerant... more

With the king under their control, the determination of Fairfax's Army made Presbyterian parliamentarians buckle. And when Ireton presented the... more