This came in from Marshall :<\/p>\n
Hi,<\/p>\n
On the 30th January 1659, Charles Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland stepped onto the scaffold to face his execution after seven years of civil war in his three kingdoms, conflict that resulted in the death of a greater proportion of our population than in the world wars of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n
The execution of the King and the preceding war was without doubt one of the most momentous things ever to happen in our country. Why then is it a subject so poorly covered by the film and television industry. The Tudors, and in particular Elizabeth, are the subject of so many films and television series that it seems that every well known actress has put her own slant on Elizabeth\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
Your two Elizabeth films are truly amazing, but what of Cromwell, our chief of men, one of our greatest historic figures, who with the support of some amazing, influential contemporaries changed our country for the better \u2013 forever. They changed the unthinkable \u2013 that we could be ruled by someone outside the elite aristocracy \u2013 it was the real beginnings of our Parliamentary system and eventually helped inspire the American colonies to fight for their freedom.<\/p>\n
The film \u2018Cromwell\u2019, staring Richard Harris, was amazing for its time but surely the time is right to tell the story of the Civil War, Cromwell and the execution of Charles I using modern filming techniques and digital technology, to bring to life someone that should be a hero to all democratically minded people.<\/p>\n
You are the person to make this happen; to bring Cromwell to life, to tell one of the greatest stories in our history and to help put him at the forefront of our Nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Your films are inspirational \u2013 our Nation needs inspiration, direction and a sense of who we are. We are not subjects, we are citizens of a great country \u2013 I want our voices to be heard I want us to be truely free. The memory of Cromwell, John Lilbourne and Thomas Raisborough needs to live on, to inspire and help us to realise there is another way \u2013 we don\u2019t need to be ruled, we need to be free, we need to have a stake in our Nation, not simply be seen as servants of our ruling aristocratic elite.<\/p>\n
Help us to become free through film.<\/p>\n
Thanks for listening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This came in from Marshall : Hi, On the 30th January 1659, Charles Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland stepped onto the scaffold to face his execution after seven years of civil war in his three kingdoms, conflict that resulted in the death of a greater proportion of our population than in the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n