Philip Skippon And The British Civil Wars

Author : Ismini Pells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100005487X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Skippon and the British Civil Wars written by Ismini Pells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Skippon was the third-most senior general in parliament’s New Model Army during the British Civil Wars. A veteran of European Protestant armies during the period of the Thirty Years’ War and long-serving commander of the London Trained Bands, no other high-ranking parliamentarian enjoyed such a long military career as Skippon. He was an author of religious books, an MP and a senior political figure in the republican and Cromwellian regimes. This is the first book to examine Skippon’s career, which is used to shed new light on historical debates surrounding the Civil Wars and understand how military events of this period impacted upon broader political, social and cultural themes.

Author : Lloyd Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000462447
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the English Civil Wars written by Lloyd Bowen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the English Civil Wars is the first collection of essays to explore how the bloody struggle which took place between the supporters of king and parliament during the 1640s was viewed in retrospect. The English Civil Wars were perhaps the most calamitous series of conflicts in the country’s recorded history. Over the past twenty years there has been a surge of interest in the way that the Civil Wars were remembered by the men, women and children who were unfortunate enough to live through them. The essays brought together in this book not only provide a clear and accessible introduction to this fast-developing field of study but also bring together the voices of a diverse group of scholars who are working at its cutting edge. Through the investigation of a broad, but closely interrelated, range of topics – including elite, popular, urban and local memories of the wars, as well as the relationships between civil war memory and ceremony, material culture and concepts of space and place – the essays contained in this volume demonstrate, with exceptional vividness and clarity, how the people of England and Wales continued to be haunted by the ghosts of the mid-century conflict throughout the decades which followed. The book will be essential reading for all students of the English Civil Wars, Stuart Britain and the history of memory.

Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007369115
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Civil War: A People’s History (Text Only) written by Diane Purkiss and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.

Author : Stephen Porter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349248614
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London and the Civil War written by Stephen Porter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The book has a freshness of viewpoint which makes most enjoyable reading.' - Joan Thirsk As the country's largest city, the focus of its trade and cultural life and the possessor of sizeable militia forces and the national capital, London's influence on the country's history has always been very important. In particular its adherence to the parliamentarian cause was crucial to the outcome of the first Civil War and its aloofness from the second Civil War was no less significant. The essays in this volume examine the background to its choice of allegiance, the way in which it was secured for the parliamentary cause in 1642, its contribution to the war effort, the royalists' reaction to its recalcitrance, the impact of the war upon the capital and its importance as the centre of politically inspired ceremonial.

Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786732628
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Civil War written by Diane Purkiss and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling history of the violent struggle between the monarchy and Parliament that tore apart seventeenth-century England, a rising star among British historians sheds new light on the people who fought and died through those tumultuous years. Drawing on exciting new sources, including letters, memoirs, ballads, plays, illustrations, and even cookbooks, Diane Purkiss creates a rich and nuanced portrait of this turbulent era. The English Civil War’s dramatic consequences-rejecting the divine right monarchy in favor of parliamentary rule-continue to influence our lives, and in this colorful narrative, Purkiss vividly brings to life the history that changed the course of Western government.

Author : Wilfrid Emberton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skippon's Brave Boys written by Wilfrid Emberton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 9780586090084
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cavaliers & Roundheads written by Christopher Hibbert and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Roberts
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781596794
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cromwell's War Machine written by Keith Roberts and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian of the English Civil Wars shares a fascinating study of the seventeenth century New Model Army, examining its formation, tactics, and significance. The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describes how Cromwell's army was recruited, inspired, organized, trained, and equipped. He also sets its strategic and tactical operation in the context of the theory and practice of warfare in seventeenth-century Europe.

Author : Mark A Kishlansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521273770
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the New Model Army written by Mark A Kishlansky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a meticulously-researched and highly controversial study of the origins and development of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics during the English Civil War. Professor Kishlansky challenges the fundamental assumptions upon which all previous interpretations of this period have been based. It is his contention that during the years 1643-6, Parliament operated on a model of consensus rather than on one of party conflict as has been traditionally assumed. The New Model Army was thus the product of compromise and, Professor Kishlansky argues, it embodied the ideology that created it. The political invention of the Army occurred only after the machine of consensus politics had broken down with Parliament. The New Model Army, perpetuating the belief in consensus and balance but also representing its own interests, then became one of many factions competing for dominance.

Author : James Barbary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puritan & Cavalier written by James Barbary and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the conflict in 17th century England between King Charles and the Puritans.