Tag Index: English Civil War

The Instance of the Fingerpost

Type: Book Review
Ian Pears | Vintage | 1998 | Book Type:
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This novel is set in Oxford during the restoration in the 1660s, a time of complex intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment and uses a mix of both real and fictitious historical figures. The murder of Dr Robert Grove, a fellow of New College, and the events surrounding it are narrated from four significantly different points of... More →

Havoc In Its Third Year

Type: Book Review
Ronan Bennett | Headline Review | New Ed edition (6 Jun 2005) | Book Type:
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Havoc in its Third Year is Bennett’s third novel. It is set the 1630s in the period leading up to the English civil wara town in northern England which had recently removed a corrupt and tyrannical local aristocrat, only then to be ruled by a new repressive puritanical regime. Bennett is a writer of deep political conviction and this novel deals... More →

The Family of William Penn

Type: Event
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With: Jim McNeill,
misc-poster-2012
Liam Flynn's Ale House 22W. North Ave. Tel. (443) 956 1702 liamflynn@gmail.com The Family of William Penn: Their Role in the brutal Colonisation of Ireland The Story of the Penn family's involvement in Cromwell's bloody occupation of Ireland, their amassing of land and estates by force and their role as aristocatic absentee landlords. A mighty... More →

The Good Old Cause: Moments of wonder and betrayal in the English Revolution (1640-49)

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misc-poster-2012
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 242-4201 - Email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org Despite the cheerleading you may have seen in the media about the Diamond Jubilee of the British Monarch, a wave of nausea and apathy, rather than nationalism... More →

Bristol Radical History Week 2006: James Nayler Commemoration

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The opening event of Bristol Radical History Week 2006 was a commemoration of James Nayler's ride into Bristol in 1656. The cast included The Blew Regiment of The Cittie of London Trayned Bandes from the Sealed Knot and The Red Hot Frilly Kickers, a cancan troupe. This gallery contains the script used during the reconstruction of James Nayler's trial. More →

Winstanley

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With: Steve Mills,
misc-poster-2009
Winstanley – Andrew Mollo & Kevin Brownlow, UK / 1975 / 95 mins / cert 1 Join us and the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective for this screening of a restored version of this important film from 1975. In the run up to the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair on 12 September, this film evokes some of the earliest examples of anarchist thought and... More →

The New Model Army's Relief of Bristol

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Date:
2006bw_l
History Walk from St Werburghs City Farm to the centre of Bristol focusing on The New Model Army's relief of Bristol in 1645 Meet at 12noon at the St. Werburghs City Farm Cafe for breakfast (to cure hangovers from the Sea Shanty night at the Cube). Leaving at 1.00pm, Jim McNeill, local historian, storyteller and member of Living Easton, retraced... More →