Anna Keay Collection 2 Books Set The Restless Republic, The Last Royal Rebel

Name: Anna Keay Collection 2 Books Set The Restless Republic, The Last Royal Rebel
Brand: Anna Keay

Anna Keay

Description. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. The Restless Republic: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the ‘useless and dangerous’ House of Lords discarded. The people, it was announced, were now the sovereign force in the land. What this meant, and where it would lead, no one knew. The Restless Republic is the story of the extraordinary decade that followed. It takes as its guides the people who lived through those years. Among them is Anna Trapnel, the daughter of a Deptford shipwright whose visions transfixed the nation. John Bradshaw, the Cheshire lawyer who found himself trying the King. Marchamont Nedham, the irrepressible newspaper man and puppet master of propaganda. Gerrard Winstanley, who strove for a Utopia of common ownership where no one went hungry. William Petty, the precocious scientist whose map...