Passed - and even sold - from faction to faction, Charles was King but also a prisoner of Parliament
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Presbyterianism
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The authority of the Catholic Church shattered; Europe reacts: Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Category: History
As the country became ever more mired in war, there was no way to avoid taking sides
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One of the great figures of British history: Elizabeth I - The Virgin Queen
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Henry VIII's desire for divorce sparks a reformation in England
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James Stuart moved two nations closer together through the Union of the Crowns
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Parliament wouldn't be Parliament without a few splits and divisions
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Charles' attempts to rule three kingdoms as one explains the Scottish Origins of the Civil War
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The Short and Long Parliaments provided a forum for discontent - and so the crisis escalated
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Not having been born to the throne, there were many mistakes in the early reign of Charles I
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Discontent had begat disagreement; disagreement led to war
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It wasn't just religion and Scottish nationalism in the mix - there was also an Irish dimension
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Charles' supporters come together with the formation of a Royalist Party
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Charles I needed their support; they listed their grievances. There was no way back for Parliament and King
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The conflict had a different complexion with the arrival of war in Ireland
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It was to be short, but brutal: the Second Civil War
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The King had gone too far - and Parliament weighed the ultimate sanction: Regicide
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Two years of an uneasy peace were about to end with the engagement
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Charles was still the King in the eyes of the grandees - but under threat from rank and file radicalism
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Inspiring a battle over land rather than religion: John Lilburne and The Levellers
Category: History