Weekend Courses & Events in the Cotswolds
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History, Family History & Architecture
For King or Parliament: Britains Civil Wars 1625-1660
Start: 01 October 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
End: 03 October 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
With
Dr Andrew Lacey
This course will explore the causes, conduct and implications of the civil wars which raged across the British Isles in the 1640s and 1650s. We will begin by exploring why the civil wars happened in the breakdown of trust between Charles I and his leading subjects assembled in Parliament, before looking at the battles and sieges of the first 'hot' period of war between 1642 and 1646. From there we will examine the complex process of negotiation and realignment which occurred between the fall of Oxford in 1646, the second 'hot' period of war in 1648, and the trial and execution of the king in January 1649. We will also be looking at the rise of such groups as the Levellers and Diggers and religious radicalism. We will then consider England's only experience of republican government in the 1650s and the position of Oliver Cromwell, who rose to become Lord Protector in 1653: was he 'king in all but name'? Finally we will look at the fall of the republic after Cromwell's death and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.
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