Charles I and the Civil Wars
From the Archive: The World Turned Upside Down
At 2pm, on Tuesday 30 January 1649, King Charles I stepped onto a wooden scaffold outside Whitehall’s Banqueting House, knelt in front of thousands of spectators and was publicly beheaded as a traitor. It was the brutal climax of years of bloody civil war, which had seen tens of thousands of people lose their lives and livelihoods as England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland were plunged into chaos.
In 2022, HistFest partnered with the Museum of London Docklands to host a special event exploring the civil wars and execution of Charles I.
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