Naseby
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Um, spot the bloopers in this article. These are the two I came upon, and I’m afraid I didn’t read the rest of the article. As far as I recall Charles I had the Royalist/Cavaliers on his side, and the only time Cromwell “ceased” control of the kingdom was when he turned up his toes!
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Britain’s Lost Battlefields (with Rob Bell)
“Tudor” era, 5Select., arquebus, Bannockburn, Battle of Hastings, battlefields, Boudicca, Channel Five, Charles I, Colchester Castle, Edward II, English Civil War, handguns, Harold II, Iceni, Kett Rebellion, Maurice, Mousehold Heath, muskets, Naseby, Nero, Norwich, Oliver Cromwell, Parliamentary army, Rob Bell, Robert I, Robert Kett, Roman Empire, Rupert, Sir thomas Fairfax, Watling Street, William I, WymondhamChannel Five’s reputation for history programmes has risen greatly over the past few years. At the heart of this, first in a Great Fire of London series with Suzannah Lipscomb and the ubiquitous Dan Jones, has been the “engineering historian” Rob Bell, who has toured bridges, ships, buildings and lost railways in his own amiable,…
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TREASON 3 – The Long Parliament 1649
Algernon Sidney, anarchy, Bishops, Carisbroke castle, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Church of England, Commonwealth, constitutional monarchy, Cornet George Joyce, dethronement, Edward II, Elizabeth I, executions, Henry VI, Holmby House, House of Commons, House of Lords, Interregnum, James VI/I, James VII/II, John, John Bradshaw, John Cooke, Juxton, Laud, lex talionis, Lockyer, London, Long Parliament, Lords Appellant, Magna Carta, Mary II, Mass, Merciless Parliament, Naseby, Netherlands, New Model Army, Newcastle, Oliver Cromwell, Oxford, Parliament of Devils, Preston, Pride’s Purge, Puritans, Restoration, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Robertson, Royal Assent, Rupert, Samuel Gardiner, Scotland, Short Parliament, siege of Colchester, Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Sir thomas Fairfax, Southwell, Spain, Strafford, treason, Treaty of Newport, Triennial Act, tyranny, Veronica Wedgwood, Whitehall, William III, WindsorIntroduction “ The scaffold was hung round with black, and the floor covered with black, and the axe and block (were) laid in the middle of the scaffold. There were divers companies of Foot and Horse on every side of the scaffold, and the multitude of people that came to be spectators were very great.”[1]…
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