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...Parliament placed Charles on trial in January 1649. Once the decision to place Charles on trial had been made, the result was a foregone conclusion. On 30th January 1649, Charles was executed on a scaffold in front of Whitehall. He met his end with great dignity and fortitude, something which helped his son regain the throne in 1660. English Civil War: The Key Players...

...English courses [A cat looking at a laptop ] Just do it. Forget about procrastination. The time is now. Write early in the morning, before you have time to distract yourself with self-doubt and Twitter. Write the first thing that comes into your head, and don’t stop for at least 20 minutes. After that, you are more likely to carry on. Then do the same thing tomorrow. It...

...English seafaring triumph using appropriately strong, forthright and rumbustious melodies. In contrast, John Ireland's setting of John Masefield's Sea Fever (1913) is an elegiac celebration of the freedom of the open sea drawing on a romantic idealisation of the seafaring life central to ideas of British identity. [Henry Wood] William Walton's (1902-1983) overture...