"Regicide and Revolution: Portugal 1908-1910"

If one wanted to pinpoint the precise cultural moment at which the twentieth century truly began, and at which ‘the long nineteenth century’ so beloved of modern chroniclers truly finished, one could make a good case for saying that that moment occurred not (as conventionally supposed) with the First World War's outbreak, but six years earlier in Lisbon, when King Carlos I and his elder son were murdered in cold blood. This chapter, from Dr. Stove's forthcoming book on interwar monarchism (to be published by Pen and Sword, Yorkshire, later in 2024), gives further details of the Portuguese revolution. 

R. J. Stove Sydney-born but since 2001 Melbourne-based, is the author of several books including The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims (2003) and César Franck: His Life and Times (2012). He is currently at work on a history of European monarchist movements between the wars. 

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