Strategically located at the lowest bridging point of the River Trent, the market town of Newark in Nottinghamshire became the focus of one of the most sustained conflicts of the British Civil Wars.
Staunchly Royalist, the town’s inhabitants were besieged by Parliamentary forces three times – in February 1643; again in February and March 1644; and finally, from November 1645 to May 1646, when they finally surrendered.
Throughout these years the civilian populations suffered many privations, including typhus and plague. Now, based on new archival research, Jade Jesty, a doctoral researcher from Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, discusses daily life, and death, in the besieged town with Publisher, Mike Gibbs.
