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The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown (William Collins, 2022) is out now.
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⭐ Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction, 2022
⭐ Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 2022
⭐ The Sunday Times History Book of the Year, 2022
The Restless Republic charts extraordinary story of the republic of Britain. Ranging from the corridors of Westminster to the common fields of England, from the radicals in power to the banished royalists and from the dexterous mandarins to the trembling religious visionaries, this account of the 'Interregnum' illuminates a world in which a new ideology struggled to take root in a scarred landscape. It is the story of what happened when a conservative people tried revolution.
A dazzling achievement, and I loved every page"
Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times
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