{"id":18419,"date":"2022-10-06T17:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=216810"},"modified":"2022-10-07T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:34:07","slug":"robert-harris-on-the-manhunt-for-charles-is-killers","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/robert-harris-on-the-manhunt-for-charles-is-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Harris on the manhunt for Charles I\u2019s killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 06 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Charles II was determined to seek revenge on the men who killed his father. During the Restoration period the regicides fled across the globe and were hunted down by the king\u2019s allies, to be gruesomely executed for their part in Charles I\u2019s death. Historical novelist Robert Harris tells Rhiannon Davies about his new book, <em>Act of Oblivion<\/em>, which follows the hunt for two Cromwellian colonels who signed the king\u2019s death warrant.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-216810-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/charles-I-8bb8976.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/charles-I-8bb8976.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/charles-I-8bb8976.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Robert Harris is the author of <em>Act of Oblivion<\/em> (Cornerstone, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/act-of-oblivion-robert-harris\/18429818?ean=9780063248007&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Act-Oblivion-Robert-Harris\/dp\/1529151759?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/act-of-oblivion\/robert-harris\/9781529151756&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhiannon Davies Published: Thursday, 06 October 2022 at 12:00 am Charles II was determined to seek revenge on the men who killed his father. During the Restoration period the regicides fled across the globe and were hunted down by the king\u2019s allies, to be gruesomely executed for their part in Charles I\u2019s death. 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