Colchester in Essex was a hotbed of puritanism in the seventeenth century. Unsurprisingly, the Essex town came out strongly for Parliament when civil war broke out in 1642.
1648, Military History, Second Civil War, Talks
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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.
Interviews, National Civil War Centre
Brilliana Harley (1598 - 1643) was one of the heroines of the British and Irish Civil Wars.
Features, Talks, Women
How do you recruit, train and organise an army? How can it be housed, fed and equipped with arms and munitions during a protracted war? How can you maintain moral and discipline? How can you care for the wounded and bury the dead?
Military History, Series, Talks
For decades the civil wars were presented as a “gentlemanly” conflict where both sides “played” by the rules of “civilised” warfare. But now we know the reality was very different.
Key Questions, Military History, Series
New research now published by the Royal Historical Society reveals for the first time how Lord and Lady Brooke and their household made Warwick Castle a strategic stronghold for Parliament and withstood a Royalist siege.
Civil War Petitions Project, Features, Women
The British civil wars were largely played out around numerous fortified strongpoints at locally important strategic sites throughout the three Kingdoms.
Battles, Interviews, Military History, Scotland
Besieged not once but three times, by parliamentarian and Scots armies, Newark was fought over for years and earned the reputation for being a "brave towne and garrison".
Battles, Military History, Talks
Memorials of conflicts that have occurred since the nineteenth century are commonplace around the country.
Battles, Interviews
Distinguished Civil War historian David J. Appleby has uncovered the story of this massacre and subsequent cover-up.
Battles, Civil War Petitions Project, Interviews, Military History
While accounts frequently focus on the large set-piece battles, much, if not most of the conflict was fought by regional or local forces in raids, skirmishes and sieges of strongpoints.
Battles, Civil War Petitions Project, Interviews, Military History
This is the incredible but true story of John Poyer of Pembroke.
Books, Interviews, Oliver Cromwell, Second Civil War, Wales
