Casuarinas on Patonga Creek
I've been reading 'The Stuarts' by Trevelyan. It has the usual hagiography of Charles I, which I am not prepared to buy. But for the first time, I feel that the Tory/Whig difference started to make sense.
Churchill tries to tell the history of the English 'constitution' and political arrangements in his "History of the English Speaking Peoples", but despite his overriding interest in political arrangements and in his family, he makes fails to explain these or why the English made the peace they made after Marlborough's resounding victories, whereas, it all seems to make sense in Trevelyan.
And as for Charles I, I'll take Geoffrey Robertson (The Tyrannicide Brief) over the two authors above. (But given the English ended up with the Stuart monarchs, Charles I as a saint was bound to prevail as the official viewpoint.)
