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The 1650s: Britain's Decade Without a Crown

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Politics of the Revolution of the 16th Century

I think it was a revolution, my take on it. Politics was this britondin's real revolution. I mean, arthe landed the traditional anglo norman aristocracy,. toppled our landed estates, broken up the churches. How revolution he was tha sort of, i doto say political economy - but just on the widest politics of teocultural society. So, ye, lets stay away from the westminster. Who's in, who's outgame. But just on the wider politics of teOCultural society. He says: "If what it wasn't really was a social revel it's not like france in the first years of the french revolution"

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