Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
Gresham College Lectures
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Ludwig Huygens visited Whitehall Palace as part of a diplomatic mission in 1651. Since the execution of Charles I two years earlier, there had been no single sovereign to whom diplomats could present their credentials. As far as they or anyone else knew, monarchy was gone for good. The decade of republicanism in the British Isles acted as an extraordinary stimulus. It was a constitutional failure, the monarchy was restored in 1660 and has never returned in Britain - although it has done in Ireland.
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