| Description |
xxiii, 627 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm |
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| Note |
Originally published: London: HarperPress, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This history of the English Civil War brings to life the people who fought and died in it and in doing so changed the history of the world. It draws on sources such as letters, ballads, illustrations, plays and material from private collections and is peopled with rich characters including John Milton and Oliver Cromwell. |
| Contents |
1. The last cavalier? -- 2. The meek-eyed peace -- 3. Two women : Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay -- 4. The bishops' wars, the three kingdoms, and Montrose -- 5. Pym against the papists -- 6. Stand up, shout Mars -- 7. The valley of decision -- 8. Bright-harnessed angels : Edgehill -- 9. Down with bishops and bells : iconoclasm -- 10. The death of dreams -- 11. The war over Christmas -- 12. The queen's tale : Henrietta Maria -- 13. Newbury fight -- 14. Two capitals : Oxford and London -- 15. The bitterness of war -- 16. Two marriages -- 17. The power of heaven : Marston Moor and Cromwell -- 18. The cookery writers' tales : general hunger, Hannah Wolley, Kenelm Digby and the deer of Corse Lawn -- 19. Twenty thousand Cornish boys : the battle of Lostwithiel -- 20. The nation's nightmares -- 21. Th' easy earth that covers her : the children's tales -- 22. God with us! : Montrose's campaign -- 23. New professions : Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman -- 24. The world is turned upside down : the New Model Army and Naseby fight -- 25. Ashes : the siege of Taunton and the Clubmen -- 26. The birds in the greenwoods are mated together : Anne Halkett and the escape of James II -- 27. Nor iron bars a cage : the capture of Charles I -- 28. A new heaven and a new Earth : Anna Trapnel and the Levellers -- 29. Stand up now, stand up now : Gerrard Winstanley and the diggers -- 30. The second Civil War -- 31. To Carisbrooke's narrow case : Charles I in captivity -- 32. Oh, he is gone, and now hath left us here : the trial and execution of Charles I -- 33. Into another mould? : the aftermath. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) (OCoLC)fst01352303 |
| Chronological Term |
1642-1649
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780007150625 (pbk.) |
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0007150628 (pbk.) |
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9780007150618 |
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000715061X |
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