Book Title: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Author: Jonathan HealeyHeadline: New Model Army and the Regicide of Charles I Parliament reorganized its forces into the New Model Army, led by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver
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Book Title: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Author: Jonathan HealeyHeadline: New Model Army and the Regicide of Charles I
Parliament reorganized its forces into the New Model Army, led by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, promoting based on effectiveness, not social status. After their decisive victory at Naseby in 1645, King Charles Isurrendered to the Scots in 1646. Following further conflict, Henry Ireton pushed for the king's trial, leading to Charles I's public execution in 1649, a shocking moment for many.
1600 QUEEN ANNE, KING JAMES, WALES, LATER CHARLES I
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| 0:31.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:36.9 | Continuing with Associate Professor of Social History at Oxford University, Jonathan Healy, his new book, The Blazing World, is a new history of Revolutionary England, |
| 0:42.3 | 1603 to 1689. |
| 0:44.3 | It is now 1646. |
| 0:47.3 | Charles I, the region of England and Ireland, |
| 0:51.3 | this is everything we understand, the power of the king, surrenders to the Scots called the Covenanters, |
| 0:58.0 | because he's being pursued by the New Model Army, led by Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. |
| 1:05.0 | Jonathan, we go immediately to the personalities of these leaders of the new model army, |
| 1:11.6 | because that will be determinative of this regicide upon us. |
| 1:17.6 | What is the new model army and what is Fairfax to it, what is Cromwell to it at this point? |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, the New Model Army was the attempt by Parliament to reorganise their forces because |
| 1:30.3 | they had found themselves in a sort of winning position in the civil war that had taken |
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