The English Civil Wars: Local Aspects

This book conveniently brings together a collection of important texts in local history writing in the field of Civil War studies over the last three decades. The essays range in date from 1969 to 1994 and bear witness to the historiographical changes that have occurred in these years. They draw on a wide range of source material housed in county and urban record offices, in two cases make use of archaeological evidence and offer a wide geographical spread, with chapters on London, the South, the Midlands, East Anglia, the West and the North. All demonstrate that the experience of civil war in England was essentially plural and lacking in uniformity, and that local historians of the subject have placed all others in their debt.