The Trial of Charles I (TRIH ep 143, part 1)
1629 · 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.
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- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)