Timeline - Republic & Restoration
Cromwell's Commonwealth Republic
The English Civil War lasted from 1642 – 1651 though Charles I was put on trial and beheaded for treason in 1649. The victorious Roundheads established a republican or ‘Commonwealth’ government which was headed by Oliver Cromwell. The new regime was Puritan in its sympathies and passed a series of ‘moral’ laws which forbade certain leisure activities both cultural and sporting; football games were outlawed and the theatres were closed; make up and bright clothing were banned as was, most famously, the celebration of Christmas.
The death of Cromwell in 1658 and the ascension of his son to the role of Lord Protector proved to be the undoing of the Commonwealth. Within months the nobles of
The Restoration
sed diamaccusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaquep. Store veritatis et quasi architecto Restoration drama.
| backward to the Stuarts & the Civil War | forward to the Enlightenment |
| Contemporary literature from the period | ||
|
||
| Modern literature set in the period | ||
|
||
| Film set in the period | ||
|
||
