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On january thirtieth, 16 forty nine, outside the palace of whitehall in central london, a man walked up to a large raised stage. Below him, thousands of people waited eagerly to see history made. On this signal, a man whose face was covered, raised an axe high and brought it down on the other man's neck,. That man was king charles, the first of england, the first and only british king to be executed. In this episode, we are going to tell this story of the english civil war, how britain came to kill its king, what happened in the subsequent 11 years when there was no official king, why the

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