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The World Turned Upside Down – The British Civil Wars 1638-1651

The realities of ‘a womb big with miseries’

36 min • 25 april 2025

For decades the civil wars were presented as a “gentlemanly” conflict where both sides “played” by the rules of “civilised” warfare. But now we know the reality was very different. In fact this was a protracted, bloody fight that disrupted, and at times, destroyed, the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children ... Read more

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