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The execution of Charles I in 1649 followed by the proclamation of aCommonwealth was an extraordinary political event. It followed a bitter CivilWar between parliament and the king and their total failure to negotiate asubsequent peace settlement. Why the king was defeated and executed has been acentral question in English history being traced back to the Reformation andforward to the triumph of parliament in the eighteenth century. The oldanswers whether those of the Victorian narrative historian S.R. Gardiner or ofLawrence Stones diagnosis of a fatal longterm rift in English societyhowever no longer satisfy while the newer ones of local historians andrevisionists often leave readers unclear as to why the Civil War happened atall. In Why Was Charles I Executed? Clive Holmes supplies clear answers toeight key questions about the period ranging from why the king had to summonthe Long Parliament to whether there was in fact an English Revolution. «
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