Introduction Common wisdom has it that the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 was a desperate, aberrant act by a small and reluctant minority of English parliamentarians - opposed by the ...

The simplistic view of the English Civil War was that it was a confrontation between a would-be autocrat, Charles I, and his Parliament over who should govern the country. The “Whig ...

Ballads from the time of the Stuarts will be sung at a public event tomorrow to mark the anniversary of Charles I's execution. The King was beheaded in Westminster on January 30, 1649 some years ...

How Charles II became King of England (and the bedroom): Born on this day, monarch survived the Civil War and execution of his father before dramatic rise to the throne - and had 12 illegitimate ...

On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.

The streets of central London were filled with a troupe of Civil War re-enactors yesterday as they led a procession from St James Palace on the Mall to the Banqueting House in Whitehall.

On the day of his execution, Charles asked for two shirts to avoid trembling from the cold and being suspected of fear. At the very end, whatever his flaws, he exited bravely: one lifts one’s ...

(Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Charles I was notorious for sparring with the English parliament – a tense relationship that led to the English Civil War and his eventual execution.

In the Parliamentarian port of Poole the very idea of a pub named "The King's Head" would have been deeply provocative.