The English Civil War
Rana Mitter talks to three historians, Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay and Clare Jackson, about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.
If the Tudors are the soap opera of English history, the restless years of the mid 17th century, often called the English Civil War, are more like a seminar in political and religious theory with an added component of armed violence. How did historians in the 20th century make sense of the period? And how are historians of today rising to the challenge?
The Restless Republic: The People’s Republic of Britain, by Anna Keay, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022.
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688, by Clare Jackson, was the winner of the 2022 Wolfson History Prize.
New Generation Thinker Jonathan Healey has just published The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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