It is hard to think of another decade in English history, with the possible exception of the 1940s, which saw so much political and social change. A considerable part of the wealth and land of the defeated cavaliers was taken from them, sequestrated and used to pay for the war and given to the victors. The war that they had fought was, and remains, proportionally one of the most destructive of human life that the British Isles has ever experienced.
B.O.B THE UPSIDE DOWN TORRENT FREE
Censorship had collapsed and tens of thousands of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsheets and ballads had poured from printing presses in an uncontrollable and unprecedented torrent of free speech.Īn entire army had, in another historical first, elected its own representatives from every regiment, challenged their commanders and altered the entire political direction of the revolution. The entire national church, a pillar of government as well as a religious institution, had been torn down and the Archbishop of Canterbury tried and executed. Nearly a decade of political upheaval, popular mobilisation and civil war had indeed “turned the world upside down,” in the phrase contemporaries used. This was not unique, for the Netherlands was already a republic but in the world of the 17th century it was remarkable that a second European country should do so amid the almost universal order of monarchy.Īnd it was not just that England had become a republic but how it had become a republic. The greatest poet of the age, John Milton, wrote the The Defence of the English People so that in every nation on the continent it would be known that it was an act of justice.Īt the same time the revolution abolished the House of Lords and declared the Commonwealth of England to be a republic.
B.O.B THE UPSIDE DOWN TORRENT TRIAL
“It was not,” as the regicide Thomas Harrison later told his own trial for his part in killing the king, “a thing done in a corner.” Never had an armed people, called to battle by a parliament, defeated their sovereign and created a court to find him guilty of crimes against them. Kings had lost their lives before - in battle, at the hands of rivals, even killed by members of their own family. Charles I was then executed on a platform built outside Banqueting House in London’s Whitehall. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back.IN 1649 the English people did something that had never been done in the entire millennia-long history of the existence of kings and their related titles of caesar, kaiser, tsar or shah.Īt the culmination of a popular revolution, they put their monarch on public trial and found him guilty of treason against the people. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach. Not even the law or science!Īdam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back.
Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe.
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