The English Civil War
A People’s History
Diane Purkiss
Table of Contents
An Epistle to the Gentle Reader
III Two Women: Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay
IV The Bishops’ Wars, the Three Kingdoms, and Montrose
VIII Bright-Harnessed Angels: Edgehill
IX Down with Bishops and Bells: Iconoclasm
XII The Queen’s Tale: Henrietta Maria
XIV Two Capitals: Oxford and London
XVII The Power of Heaven: Marston Moor and Cromwell
XIX Twenty Thousand Cornish Boys: The Battle of Lostwithiel
XXI Th’ Easy Earth That Covers Her: The Children’s Tales
XXII God with Us! Montrose’s Campaign
XXIII New Professions: Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman
XXIV The World is Turned Upside Down: The New Model Army and Naseby Fight
XXV Ashes: The Siege of Taunton and the Clubmen
XXVI The Birds in the Greenwoods are Mated Together: Anne Halkett and the Escape of James II
XXVII Nor Iron Bars a Cage: The Capture of Charles I
XXVIII A New Heaven and a New Earth: Anna Trapnel and the Levellers
XXIX Stand Up Now, Stand Up Now: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
XXXI To Carisbrooke’s Narrow Case: Charles I in Captivity
XXXII Oh, He is Gone, and Now hath Left Us Here: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
XXXIII Into Another Mould? The Aftermath
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