King Charles II
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Venue: Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
Charles II has an enduring public reputation as the most urbane, witty, tolerant, cultured, cynical and sophisticated of monarchs, a modern man before his time. How much, however, is this image a modern myth, and how much does it reflect historical reality? This talk proposes to give a rounded picture of his nature and his abilities as a ruler, and asks whether this so-called Merry Monarch might not better be termed the Slippery Sovereign.
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Professor Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton is a Professor of History at Bristol University. He took his degrees at Cambridge and Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Society of Antiquaries and Learned Society of Wales. He has published fifteen books on different aspects of British history and his latest book is a survey of the Tudor and early Stuart period.