02.70 - The Man of Blood

With King Charles I faced with reality, and parliament desparate for peace, the Newport Treaty promises to be a compromise settlement. But the New Model Army, and especially Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, refuse to allow this 'man of blood' to get away with murder. The Long Parliament will soon be dead, killed by Pride's Purge, and the stage will be set for an unprecedented trial.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

• Philip Baker, 'The Regicide', in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
• Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
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• Michael J. Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
• Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
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• Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
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• Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
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• Stuart Reid, Crown, Covenant, and Cromwell: The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639-1651.
• Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51

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