No rush. Based on the recent flurry of activity I could find myself chained to the pc! ======================================== Message Received: May 31 2007,...
First, Martin, thanks for setting up the invitation to the site. Very helpful and very easy to do. I have been interested in restoration history and...
Hi Mike, Quite a brief! One problem is the relationship between political and military history. It's still quite fashionable amongst political historians to be...
Hi Mike My recommendation for the best military books would be Young + Holmes 'Military History of the Civil Wars' with (secondary) Reid's 'All the King's...
Mike I think Steve's military recommendations are as good as it gets and the Gardiner for the history is good but I am sorry Wedgewood's books should be...
... Hmm. Well, my knowledge is a bit out of date as it's been a while since I was a student, but I wouldn't agree with you about Wedgewood's books, except they...
Okay guys I can see your points although personally I dislike Ashton's work but on second thoughts perhaps I would agree about Wedgewood's interpretation of...
... Woah there! I think I detect some explanation of your recommendation here. As Tim has said Wedgewood is out of date, and on occasions just plain wrong ...
Hi, As I'm sure many members of the Society are aware, there is a specific textual problem with the pre-1660 section of Ludlow's memoirs as we now have them:...
Apologies - I should have m,ade myself clearer. What I meant to say was that I was in agreement that Wedgewood's interpretations are biased, not that I...
... The kindest thing you can say about this book is that the facts are in the right order (we were recommended at university to have a copy for that reason)....
On reflection, John Kenyon's The Civil Wars of England (London, 1988) is quite a good introduction. Its Anglo-centric focus can be corrected by the collection...
Hi Andrew Have to disagree with you about Ludlow. Where we have Ludlow's mss and compare it to the published text the differences are so marked as to be two...
Folks, I don't know how many of you might have already seen this, but just in case I'd like you to consider participation in the followup survey from last ...
Hi Bill, Not sure there's that much difference between us about Ludlow. I accept your overall scepticism about Ludlow's reliability; and yet, and yet... those...
Hi Andrew, I want those Ludlow stories to be true but once there are grounds for suspicion. We are on sticky ground in choosing to believe the parts that ...
Hi Iain and Royston, Sorry again for the delay but I will always try to get back to you when I can. ... Neil - the Moselle diversion (which is largely around...
Andrew and all, ... games (using a range of old and new rule-sets) would be a great idea, I think that this would be a great idea but please wait until I am...
Bill As a true born Englishman how it pains me to say it. I am no expert but if you read any of Worden's works you will realise that the Jocks really did have...
Please don't think that I am certain about whether its British or English, and all of these points are IMHO! But: 1) The war is about power.. whether it is to...
Tim One of the reasons I dislike the term British Civil wars is that it does give equal prominence to events outwith England. The key contest was for control...
... OK, let me see. From the posts I've been reading the secondary material on the ECW sucks and the primary material can't be trusted. Well that's a fine war...
... Rich, Come come, the Devil is in the detail. Next you will be having me believe that the American Revolution was not a huge tax dodging scam ;-) Bill -- ...
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Hi, Just a few quick points. Those who stress the British dimension stress the way in which developments in the outlying kingdoms and England mutually...
It can't be a Civil War if you include Scotland. We may have shared a King at that point, but the Act of Union is still in the future. England & Scotland were...
I completely agree with those who feel that "English Civil War[s]" or "Civil Wars of England" gives a primacy to events in England which is not unwarranted....
ENGLISH Civil War is really the only accurate term. The war was already two years old when the Scots entered it and they did not do so with any intention of...
