The Trial of Charles I (TRIH ep 144, part 2)
1649 · Resource
This episode is Part 2 of The Rest Is History’s deep dive into the trial and execution of Charles I, featuring Professor Ted Vannance (Roehampton). The conversation reconstructs the atmosphere of the trial (opening 20 January 1649), the role of John Bradshaw as president and the silent commissioners, and vivid courtroom moments (Charles’s cane, his refusal to recognise the court, and his clear, composed defence).
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1649
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)