English Civil War
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Nov 10, 2026
Iain MacGregorGUEST
And I had everything in silos for the five themes, thinking, which ones do I really want to have? And it's subjective, isn't it? I've argued this point already with several friends who are historians, military historians.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
One of them last week said, why did you have that one? Why not go for this one? So actually, he said, you've put Marston Moore in the English Civil War in the book.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
Why didn't you have Naseby? But that's the beauty of the book.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
It's subjective.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
the ultimate leader, one person, whether it's Julius Caesar or Leonidas at Thermopylae.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
It's about what effective command do you have in your structure? Because you might want to direct your army in a certain way at a certain moment in a battle or in a certain position in the formation that you've set up.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
But you've got to have very capable leaders level of leadership beneath you that can effectively carry out your commands and there has to be an element of trust on both sides and that gets back to what you were asking me before about morale the men that are directly underneath your command that are then going to carry out your commands to the army you're leading they've got to have faith in you too and that is a percentage element that can carry the day depending on what's going on So I think that doesn't change whether it's antiquity or to the modern day or Napoleonic or English Civil War or the Dark Ages or whatever.
Iain MacGregorGUEST
You've got to have effective subalterns that can effectively carry out what you want, the mission that you stated.
Alex von TunzelmannHOST
But looking more to modern times, you're talking about the Renaissance, thinking perhaps a little after that.
Alex von TunzelmannHOST
Where can you see ancient Roman influences in, for instance, the English Civil War or the Glorious Revolution?
Jamie GianoutsosGUEST
It's really fascinating.
Jamie GianoutsosGUEST
If we actually rewind just before the English Civil Wars, it was already a big debate about how much we should think with the Romans and how we should model our own models of kingship on the ancient past.
Jamie GianoutsosGUEST
And so King James VI and I and King Charles I both liked to parade themselves as Roman emperors as well as other things.
Jamie GianoutsosGUEST
So when James rides into England for his coronation, In 1603, he actually is hailed as new Caesar Augustus, and they talk about closing the gates of Janus and peace has been brought to the kingdom.
Jamie GianoutsosGUEST
But at the same time in the early 17th century, when you don't have freedom of speech, you're not allowed to engage in libelous and scandalous speech on the secrets of state because A lot of people then are also thinking with Rome as a way to think critically about their government.
Jamie GianoutsosGUEST
And so we have a lot of Roman plays in the early 17th century that are raising questions about what do you do under a tyrant? We have a whole lot of poems and songs and popular libels that talk about Nero and start questioning whether, for example, King Charles is a Nero who's persecuting Christians during the Puritan persecutions in the 1630s.
Darren MarlarHOST
Later, she predicted the death of Cardinal Wolsey in 1530.
Darren MarlarHOST
Mother Shipton soon solidified her status as England's greatest soothsayer, and she went on to allegedly predict other events, such as the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, Oliver Cromwell's rise to power, and the restoration of the monarchy.
Darren MarlarHOST
In her own words, Forth from the north shall mischief blow, And English hob shall add thereto.
Darren MarlarHOST
Mars shall rage as he were wood, And earth shall drunken be with blood.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
Yeah.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
We all know about the English Civil War.
WillHOST
Yeah.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
But that was...
J.B. StocktonGUEST
1642, yeah.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
I don't know it, but...
J.B. StocktonGUEST
But what you had is you had the First Bishops' War, the Second Bishops' War, the Irish Rebellion, the First and Second and Third English Civil War, and the Third one was more of an Anglo-Scott war.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
Well, all the time in Ireland, the Irish Rebellion turned into what they called the series of conflicts and it was all messy and complicated and people changing side.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
Um...
J.B. StocktonGUEST
The series I have in mind is following the same character all the way through the Civil Wars and the Protectorate when England was under a military dictatorship.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
And then through the Restoration when Charles II came back onto the front.
J.B. StocktonGUEST
But I do have ideas for other stories set in other times because I like history.
GazHOST
It has a history that can go back to 1251.
GazHOST
It stands in the town centre and is closely associated with the most dramatic episode of the English Civil War.
TaylorHOST
Oh, wow.
GazHOST
So, yeah, in 1651, James, is it Stanley, and the 7th Earl of Derby were executed in Bolton after being captured.
GazHOST
Yeah, so the Earl's execution was not simply a spooky tale, but obviously historical, and it's widely, you know, it's a historical event and was real, you know, happened.
GazHOST
So, you know...
GazHOST
Yeah, so it obviously happened during the English Civil War.
GazHOST
Yeah, yeah.
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To locate the precise moment of transformation, we must look beyond the summer of 1776 back to the summer of 1646. when a man called John Lilburn found himself on trial for libel before the House of Lords.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Today, Lilburn is remembered chiefly as a leader of the Leveller movement, active during the English Civil War, and the Levellers are remembered for demanding universal manhood suffrage at the Putney Debates of 1647, several centuries before it became a reality in modern Britain.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Summoned before the peers the previous June, however, Lilburn had done something comparatively trivial.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He simply refused to kneel or to remove his hat before his aristocratic judges.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
Well, in the sort of 1600s, people kind of started getting these reports about what a pineapple was and taste buds, you know, were zinging with reports of this amazing fruit.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
And it's quite funny thinking about kind of the English Civil War going on and whatever kind of stews people might be having then and hearing these reports of the amazing pineapple.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
It must have sounded like a wonder fruit.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
Anyway, eventually they bring they start to bring the pineapples over.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
I teach various configurations of British history.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
So I teach British history in the early modern period, which is Tudor Stewart, kind of Henry the eighth and the Queen Elizabeth and the English Civil War.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
So 16th, 17th century.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
And I teach a modern British and Britain and the British Empire class, which is Britain and the British Empire since 1688.
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Guy OrtolanoGUEST
At a larger class, this would have to be managed in some other way.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
But at 40, I can just about manage it.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
In every single class, I will pose interpretive questions, hopefully fun questions, you know, like in my early modern Britain class, when we're talking about the English Civil War, would you have sided with King or Parliament? You've heard about what started the Civil War and what it was about.
Guy OrtolanoGUEST
But what would you have done in 1644? And have them write an answer and just explain why.
Simon RocheGUEST
So I'll speak loosely and I hope that you're your viewers who are adept in this field don't get too offended by what might be slightly inaccurate.
Simon RocheGUEST
But I believe that in the English Civil War, which had one of the highest fatality rates in the history of warfare, the fatality rate was about 20%.
Simon RocheGUEST
So if you're in any crisis, in any cataclysm, unless you're You know, it's a sort of battleship that goes down and all 5,000 sailors sink.
Simon RocheGUEST
Typically, the fatality rate in the worst cataclysms is not that high.
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