The Parliamentarian cause — the “Roundheads” — of the English Civil War: the supporters of Parliament who took up arms against Charles I and his Royalists. From their secure heartland of London, the South-East and the Eastern Association of East Anglia, and with the Royal Navy and the country’s wealthiest regions behind them, they won the First Civil War by 1646. In 1649 the dominant Parliamentarians under Oliver Cromwell tried and executed the king and abolished the monarchy, replacing the Kingdom of England with the republican Commonwealth.
Won the First Civil War in 1646; the dominant faction abolished the monarchy in 1649 and governed as the Commonwealth of England until the Restoration of 1660.
A concise, authoritative narrative of the wars, the Parliamentarian cause and the road to the Commonwealth.
Detailed military and political history of the Parliamentarian war effort, the Eastern Association and the New Model Army.