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God’s Fury, England’s Fire. A New History of the English Civil Wars.
by Michael Braddick.
London: Penguin Books, 2008.
In the summer of 1642, the bookseller Nathaniel Butter [DNB] put on sale a quarto pamphlet about a strange fish caught at Woolwich. A relation of a terrible monster [EEBO] told the story of a fish shaped like a [...]

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Chepstow

Photo by electric counterpoint, used under a Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike licence.
I’ve just got back from a weekend in Chepstow. On the way home I dug out an account of the siege of the town’s castle in 1648 by Colonel Isaac Ewer as part of Cromwell’s Welsh campaign. Ewer was left by Cromwell to [...]

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