Fairfax may be forced to choose - between parliamen or his soldiers
401 The Mind of a Martyr
400 Many Thousand Citizens
The Levellers were not an organized, structured politial party or pressure group in the early days. They were a loose association of radicals who found they shared new ideas thatRead More
AAG 1643-1645 The First Civil War
399 End Game
Jonathan Healey and the Blazing World
398 The Clubmen
397 In Assurance of Victory
We come to 1645, and the first test of the New Model Army. To Charles and Rupert this was an opportunity to destroy it while full of raw recruits. ThroughRead More
396 The New Model
Anglo Saxon Rendlesham
395 Forever Newbury
394 Lost With It All
393 We Saw No Light
1644 opened with Charles’ ‘Mongrel parliament’ at Oxford, and was the model of compliance. Not so at York where the noose of the Scots and Fairfax tightened around York. EnterRead More
392 The Neighbourhood Wars
391 A National War
Between a quarter and a third of adult males up to 50 will fight in the first civil war. Most families will be affected in some way. Here is theRead More
Napoleon
Ridley Scott’s long awaited latest epic; a ‘character study’ of one of the most influential figures of European history, who reshaped a continent. It has been accompanied by furious debate,Read More
390 Leagues and Covenants
Madame Tussaud, Maria Manning, and the True Crime Controversy of 1849
389 Newsheets and Newbury
Margaret Cavendish with Prof Margaret Oakes
388 Runaway Down
387 Sinews of War
Early 1643 was not a good idea for peace. By April, both the Scots and English parliament had tired of Charles’ negotiating style and started talking to each otherRead More
AAG1641-1642 The Descent to War
386 The Fighting Spreads
385 The Battle for London
384 The Breaking Storm
Charles’ situation in August looked dire. But at Shrewsbury, soldiers came to his call, arms reached him from Henrietta Maria, and in October he had an army, and set ofRead More
383 Choosing Sides
382 War of Words
Oppenheimer
British Reactions to the French Revolution by Grey History
381 Six Days
380 Irish Revolt
379 The King’s Party
378 Protestations
377 After Strafford
AAG 1638-1641 The Search for Peace
Three Ravens and Yorkshire
376 Letters of Blood
375 Divisions
Charles’ response to the Scottish Declaration was severe; but it also caused a division in the Junto, and among MPs. Meanwhile, as poublic religious debate exploded, divisions also grew betweenRead More
374 Paradise Lost
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Angevin Empire
373 Dreaming of a Golden Age
372 Go On Vigorously
371 Parliament Recalled
370 Reduce to Obedience
369 Daur ye say Mass in my lug?
Place Names – a Shedcast
English place names are a direct window in into the lives of our ancestors - an insight into the origins or remarkable features of ancient settlements. Here's a brief survey of how to decode some of them.