The inseparable intimate relationship between politics, production and trade in the years preceding the Civil Wars has often been underplayed or even ignored.
However, historians now increasingly recognise that the links between occupation and religious beliefs were fundamentally important in nurturing opposition to the King and his government in the years prior to the Civil War.
Recently, Dr Ed Legon of the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University, London, has explored the connection between religion and occupations in the cloth trade. In this programme, he discusses what his research reveals.
