Top 5 revolutionary books, chosen by historian and author Alice Hunt

Alice Hunt's new book Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660 documents a time of seismic change, when the newly formed republic was pulled in new directions every year

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• The Trial of Charles I by CV Wedgwood
• The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill
• God’s Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton