This volume centres on Colonel Philip Jones, Griffith Lloyd, and Rowland Dawkins. These three men, all from Glamorgan and linked as kin, emerged from lives on the fringes of Welsh gentry status as part of the military struggle against Charles I a...Loe edasi...
An outstanding dual biography... Dinshaw’s book is profoundly entertaining, startling in its depth, and a necessary cautionary tale about the human cost of political division Daily Telegraph Two old fri...Loe edasi...
A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England-soon followed by Scotland and Ireland-exploded into bitter conflict as dissenting members John Hampden and John Holles fled the Long Parliamen...Loe edasi...
A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England-soon followed by Scotland and Ireland-exploded into bitter conflict as dissenting members John Hampden and John Holles fled the Long Parliamen...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the martial core of the English Civil War, this account offers a detailed overview of the decade-long conflict: from the social, religious, and political divisions that influenced the nations militarization, to the experiences of comb...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the martial core of the English Civil War, this account offers a detailed overview of the decade-long conflict: from the social, religious, and political divisions that influenced the nations militarization, to the experiences of comb...Loe edasi...
A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with modern threats. A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary force...Loe edasi...
Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660. Prophets and Witches offers an exploratio...Loe edasi...
Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660.The religious fervour and End of Days enthusiasm precipit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048563104)
1) Intriguing account of the English Civil War from a royalist perspective. 2) The romance of Artabella lends itself to an analysis of social class because common males are banned from entering the kingdom. 3) Arthenia’s history of the English Civil...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199234530)
John Miltons Latin Defences are landmark texts in the history of English Civil War and Interregnum polemics. This is the first edition of the Latin Defences to be edited to modern standards of scholarship, together with new facing-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198946557)
Women Writing in a Time of War, 1642-1689 examines the stereotype of the apolitical woman who was nevertheless valuable as a messenger or secret agent during the English civil wars because her imagined lack of political acumen obscured her p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803999401)
An intimate and evocative account of an absolute ruler’s relentless descent into impotence, isolation and ultimate submission to the unthinkable. Much has been written about Charles I’s reign, about the brutal civil war into whic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803999418)
During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury and Naseby raged, another war was being fought. Its combatants fought with cunning and deceit, a hidden conflict that nevertheless would steer the cours...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803999388)
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political upheavals which spanned the entirety of the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century. It was fought on a wide range of religious, political and racial issues, an...Loe edasi...
In Ordinary People Dont Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writ...Loe edasi...
This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It see...Loe edasi...
Factionalism and Dissent in an English City makes a significant contribution to the historiography of late Restoration England. The political and religious controversies that beset the small English city of Chichester...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241312827)
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An outstanding dual biography... Dinshaws book is profoundly entertaining, startling in its depth, and a necessary cautionary tale about the human cost of political division - Daniel Brookes, The Telegraph Two old friends end up on oppo...Loe edasi...
A re-examination of the decisive defeat of the Royalists at the Battle of Cheriton in March 1644, using both contemporary 17th century sources and insights gleaned from 21st century investigative technology. The battle of Cheriton, in March 1...Loe edasi...
