It would take the shock of the French Revolution for the term ‘English Revolution’ to be used to describe the mid-century upheavals.
English Civil War
The fortunes of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and the regard in which their successive regimes came to be held were mirrored in the fate of one of their mightiest naval vessels, as Patrick Little explains.
The practice does much to illuminate 17th-century perceptions of honour whilst the justifications employed by the turncoats themselves reveal how they sought to defend their reputations with their contemporaries or for posterity.
Who, if any, of these American analysts has found the truth? Does the story of the British right to arms offer anything of value to the modern American gun debate? The academic literature has heretofore been sparse. My two books on gun control in Great Britain both focused mainly on twentieth-century gun policy, rather than the story of the 1689 Bill of Rights and its right to arms.
A wave of religious reform that swept across England during the English Civil War could have permanently changed the way Christmas is celebrated today.
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According to Kevin Sharpe, historians “have long cited James’s speeches to his parliaments.” While it is true that historians have cited James’s speeches, they have not actually scrutinized them.
There is no denying the fact that in many instances, Oliver Cromwell was in the right place at the most opportune time and that events often seemed to work in his favor through sheer luck, assuming that he had no hand in them.
These were hardly words which Charles wished to hear from his loyal subjects, and the king’s displeasure was widely reported. The mayor’s speech was not the only public pronouncement in the city on that day, however, and it may be that Charles’ subsequent irritation arose more from knowledge of the other public criticism being voiced by the civic preachers.
Pamphlets evolved into newsbooks, the forerunners of newspapers. The first English newsbook was published in November 1641 and was simply a record of parliamentary proceedings