Maurice Ashley
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Research Fellow, Loughborough University of Technology, England, 1967–70. Editor, The Listener, 1958–67. Author of The Greatness of Oliver Cromwell.
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Charles I was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49), whose authoritarian rule and quarrels with Parliament provoked a civil war that led to his execution. Charles was the second surviving son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark. He was a sickly child, and, when his father became…
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