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The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English RevolutionVerso 2025. Hardback. 560 pages The thrilling history of Parliaments fiery spirits, whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649 The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Through their stories, John Rees reveals the hidden history of the republicans who brought a
Verso 2025. Hardback. 560 pages
The thrilling history of Parliament’s ‘fiery spirits’, whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649
The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Through their stories, John Rees reveals the hidden history of the republicans who brought a desperate nation to the brink of revolution.
At the start of the English Civil Wars, very few could have imagined that the country would soon become a republic. Practically alone in his republicanism was Henry Marten, MP and future regicide. But he soon gathered around him a group of radical Parliamentarians that included William Strode, the parliamentary firebrand, Alexander Rigby, the formidable soldier, and Sir Peter Wentworth, descendant of a long line of opponents of monarchy. They formed the nucleus of a group that allied itself to a popular movement outside parliament to defeat the king politically and militarily.
In The Fiery Spirits, Rees tells how Marten and his radical allies overcame both moderate Parliamentarians and Royalists to change the face of England forever, establishing a kingdom without a crown.
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John Rees offers a novel perspective on the English revolution, foregrounding a small group of influential MPs. He convincingly argues that these “fiery spirits” determined the course of the revolution, bringing about the establishment of the English republic. An essential and engaging read
Outstanding ... [The Fiery Spirits] has extra resonance today.
The thrust of Rees’s argument is clear: the fiery spirits raised the stakes so high that Parliament was no longer presented with a choice between moderation and radicalism, but between equally intense forms of revolution or reaction.
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