Professor Champion was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2014. He died on 10 June 2020, aged 59, in the Princess Alice Hospice in Esher.England.

This short video is a gem, well done Professor Champion.

This channel helps me so much with my preparation for my history exams. Thank you so much.

Brilliant analysis. Looking back, 1649 was indeed the most significant event in British history.

R.I.P Justin champion🙏

This video is just amazing thank you

Brilliantly succinct explanation. Thank you.

Thanks for the information. Very clear !

Thanks that will be super helpful for my significance of Charles I question tomorrow!

Very informative! Thank ye

History is Awesome .

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. “ - DIDEROT.

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Very enlightening.

I feel like I've known about this incident since childhood, at least the basics of Charles I beheaded by Oliver Cromwell, but maybe not a full reason why. I think the legacy will live on as people look at the current royal family and wonder why they aren't dictators or behave like monarchs from centuries ago, well this is why. lol

Chalres III egged in the street...some things never change

As an American I'm fascinated by the English Civil War! And how King Charles lost his kingdom and ultimately his head. I've read and watched,listened to this period a lot and wondered what could he have done differently. It's an interesting comparison to Charles 1 calling Parliament that last time ( the Long Parliament I think) and Louis XV1 being forced to call the estates general just before the French Revolution broke out. These Kings out of economic necessity needing their kingdoms political bodies to convene in order to run the state. But actually instigating the courses that would lead to their demise. And when he said Charles 1 was to arrogant or quite incapable of accepting defeat and a new form of Kingship. Like becoming a constitutional Monarch with reduced authority was simply not in his capacity to accept is a insight to the mindset of this pivotal English Monarch and the belief of the "divine right of Kings".Because it was actually a small amount of English that voted to execute the King. And England then welcoming back Charles II to resume his father's mantle & title is really a unique episode in western culture!

Death is Inevitable from our first breath.

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If this is the case, why is there no consent between the people now in the United States and the government that represents the corporations ?

Charles Frayling

The English parliament made the right decision, even though it appears those against the motion were excluded.Yes,I agree,if Charles 1st had agreed to obey the decisions of parliament,and it was supreme,not the King,he would not have been executed.After all,the power of parliament had already been decided at Runnymede in 1812 [Magna Carta] Ever since that earthshaking event,England and all the Commonwealth have been Crown Republics.That is to say,the monarch does not have any real power[Parliament has the power. In light of this,any talk in Australia that we should become a Republic is illfounded. I would agree that the position of Governor General is also superfluous and should be abolished,along with the State Governors,in light of the decision of the then Govenor John Kerr...I realise what I am saying may set off a debate,but I welcome that.....F.Francis

1-Samuel 8: 7-18. God does not like Kings.

To be fair, the court had no power. And the rump parliament can hardly be considered a court anyway.

I don't think Oliver Cromwell was any better. All it really came down to was who was the better military commander. If Charles had won the English Civil War, then most assuredly Cromwell would have lost his head. Years of religious persecution for not being a strict Puritan would not have followed.

God bless Cromwell and Dukes of Monmouth and Argyle and damn James II! And Long Live William & Mary and Anne not forgetting Black Rod!

Brilliant and informative video. Here are some of the voices of those who witnessed Charles' trial and execution kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8lggap4uNPMfoU.html

The execution of Charles I was not the expression of popular sovereignty. A tiny fraction of the British people had the vote at that time. This was more a battle between elites and one of those elites won.

Killing the King was like killing God!! Can Champion really get away with such blasphemy? The Court had no legitinacy anyway and the King died a marty because he re fused to countenance the abolition of the Bishops Most people in Britain don't even know Charles 1"was executed according to Champion. What planet is he on ?

Half the people in England today barely speak English, let alone know about the Civil War.

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He was a traitor to the English people. Deserved all he got. We should also never have allowed Charles the 2nd back in.

Did not the King say that England was never an elected state but a hereditary tradition of over a thousand years That’s why the King said he was INCAPABLE of recognizing the Parliamentary Authorities as absolute It was not arrogance It was Divine Authority that the King was bound to It was the arrogance of the Puritans that put their will above the Kings and capitulated Civil War in spite of the transgressions that the King may have been faulted for Brutus methinks reminds afore Charles time speaks of yore GSK

To kill a King is unnatural.

Interesting short history lessons unfortunately rendered very annoying and to me, unwatchable, by the unnecessary and irritating use of a second profile camera cutting into the interviews. Just so annoying and pointless. KAN 8.19 UK