'The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty... this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in par

The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the 17th century was the single most traumatic event between the medieval Black Death and the two world

A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no p

The English Civil War has become a frequent point of reference in contemporary British political debate. A bitter and bloody series of conflicts, it shook the v

A history of London during the English Civil Wars, including a guide to sites today.