About the book: 2024 / English historian S.V. Wedgwood is known for her studies of the Great Rebellion in 17th-century Britain. This book examines the beginning of this historical drama, the first four years of the reign of Charles I, during which the country was on the brink of civil war. The author describes the political, economic and religious strife of the growing tragedy of the three countries of the British Isles - England, Scotland and Ireland: talks about the uprising of the Scottish Covenanters, about the battles in the English Parliament, about the terrible fate of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl of Strafford, about the events of those few years that influenced on the history of continental Europe.