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The Civil War ended with the 'rebel' Army triumphant, a regicide republic, and eventually Oliver Cromwell as dictator. Within two years of his death the regime had broken up; chaos led to Charles II being invited back. What if Cromwell had lived longer, or his regime turned into a stabler monarchy? Or shrewd Charles II had not died suddenly in his mid-fifties, or his brother James had not alienated elites and been deposed?
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In these essays possibilities are explored about late Tudor and early Stuart history. In this era political and religious developments depended heavily on royal initiative and court politics. What if Mary Tudor had lived long enough to re-establish English Catholicism firmly? Elizabeth I had died young of smallpox? Charles I's elder brother Henry had been King instead? Or Charles and Parliament had reached agreement after the Civil War?
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In-depth essays on the empire that dominated classical Europe from Tim Venning.Questions over the inevitability of the fall of the Republic, alternate successions, and even a surviving Julius Caesar: 'Hard' alternate history delivered with the academic rigour readers will have come to expect from Venning.
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