The Trial of Charles I (TRIH eps 143-144)
1649 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the trial and execution of Charles I with guest Professor Ted Vallance. The episode situates Charles's downfall in the broader context of religious tensions after the English Reformation, his Personal Rule (1629–1640), fiscal measures like ship money, and court culture that alarmed Puritans. Vallance outlines how political, religious and constitutional conflicts produced the First and then the Second Civil War, highlighting key moments: Naseby (...
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Around 1649
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)