David Horspool

How Charles II sought to obliterate a decade of British history

Anna Keay resurrects nine figures from the Interregnum – a period the later Stuarts hoped would be forgotten

Some things were not to be forgotten. The posthumous execution at Tyburn of Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton in 1661. [Alamy]
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