1st Edition

Remembering the English Civil Wars

Edited By Lloyd Bowen, Mark Stoyle Copyright 2022
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Remembering the English Civil Wars

Lloyd Bowen and Mark Stoyle

Chapter 1: Civilian Memories of the British Civil Wars, 1642-1660

Imogen Peck

Chapter 2: ‘When the Scotts Army did March Thorow our County’: Space, Place and Remembering in the English Civil War

Ann Hughes

Chapter 3: History, Politics and Power: Shaping the Recent Past in Civil War Pembrokeshire

Lloyd Bowen

Chapter 4: ‘Extreme Trials of Fidelity’?: Captain Bartholomew Gidley and Royalist Memories of the English Civil War

Mark Stoyle

Chapter 5: ‘All Forms Accustomed’: Ritual, Precedent and the Past at the Coronation of Charles II

Alice Hunt

Chapter 6: The Farnley Wood Plot and the Memory of the Civil Wars in Yorkshire

Andrew Hopper

Chapter 7: From Revolutionary Bulwark to Loyalist Bastion: The Restoration Refashioning of the London Artillery Company, 1660-85

Ismini Pells

Chapter 8: ‘Memories of the Maimed’: The Testimony of Charles I’s Former Soldiers, 1660–1730

Mark Stoyle

Biography

Lloyd Bowen is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern and Welsh History at Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include The politics of the principality: Wales, c.1603-1642 (2007) and Family and society in early Stuart Glamorgan: the household accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641 (2006). Mark Stoyle is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK. His previous publications include The black legend of Prince Rupert's dog: witchcraft and propaganda during the English civil war (2011) and Soldiers and strangers: an ethnic history of the English Civil War (2005).

 "This wide-ranging, rich and innovative collection throws new light on how memories of the civil war were fashioned and refashioned by former participants and by their families, friends, allies and adversaries. The essays explore parliamentarians and royalists, individuals and institutions, and memories of place as well as people." 

Bernard Capp, University of Warwick and FBA, UK