The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War

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She is a gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know. In the ruins of Basing House in Hampshire, burnt by Oliver Cromwell’s army in 1645, drinking glasses from Venice and a Yoruba ivory cup from west Africa have been found, but little else of its fabled buried treasure. Many more modest items have been discovered — the leather sole of a child’s shoe, lead shot, the severed skull of a young man — poignant and grim reminders of the two-year siege of the Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War. Mother-of-five Natasha Hamilton, 41, reveals brutal work out regime to get 's**t hot' after not recognising her postpartum body in the mirror The Siege of Loyalty House is not only deeply researched. Childs has composed a wonderfully poetic narrative and adds a touch of the gothic' The Times The book conveys in sobering detail the relentless grind of modern warfare: bursts of intense, lethal action, followed by periods of tedious waiting, both extremes usually accompanied by lousy food and few creature comforts.

The Siege of Loyalty House: A Story of the English Civil War The Siege of Loyalty House: A Story of the English Civil War

Childs has focused more on the men and women involved in defending Basing House, also known as “Loyalty House,” a stronghold for royalists or those who chose to tear down the barricades. These men and women were not soldiers, far from it. They were apothecaries, architects, mothers, wives, gamekeepers, and ordinary people, alongside the Marquess and Marchioness of Winchester. From 1643 until 1645, Basing House and its inhabitants faced the horror of war with numerous siege attempts by the Protestant Roundheads, who wanted to see the Catholic Cavaliers fall.Matthew Perry's co-star Rosanna Arquette pays tribute to 'kind and lovely' Friends actor and recalls his love of grape soda after death aged 54 Milo Ventimiglia, 46, and his Victoria's Secret model wife Jarah Mariano, 38, seen for the first time since marriage revealed as they go for stroll in LA It’s entirely possible that Reilly felt compelled to write immediately this entertaining and feelgood follow-up to help restore our faith in humanity and the game itself. If so, he has succeeded in rare style. After the Restoration the property was regained by the Derby family, and in the early part of the eighteenth century it was still occasionally inhabited by them, [11] but Knowsley Hall succeeded Lathom House as the principal seat of the Stanley family.

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Estimates of Cromwell’s brutality go and up down - since Antonia Frasers biography of him, views have been more nuanced in terms of reaction to a royalist regime not marked by tolerance , and some genuine desire on Cromwell’s part for some tolerance in peacetime, as well as ending of some needless wars ( despite the massacres which even in an age of harsh militaristic solutions can’t be exonerated, though they have been exaggerated ). But war is war , though when the end comes more are taken alive than slaughtered. In the end, he beat the king because he was simply a better strategist, and his glorying in victory is understandable but jarring nowadays. Malcolm Gaskill remarks that parliamentary soldiers such as Robert Rodway ‘struggled to work out … what they were doing or why’ ( LRB, 30 March). Yet the psalms the soldiers sang before battle told them why they were there. Before Marston Moor, for example, they sang the second psalm: ‘The King and Rulers of the earth, conspire and all are bent, Against the Lord and Christ his Son, which he among us sent.’ And at Edgehill, number 149: ‘To plague the heathen, and correct the people with their hands: To bind their stately Kings in chains their Lords in iron bands. To execute on them the doom that written is before: This honour all his Saints shall have, praise ye the Lord therefore!’ And there were the ten verses of the popular song ‘The Zealous Soldier’ ( c.1646), which included the words: ‘For God, and for his cause, Ile count it gaine/To lose my life; O can one happier Die,/Then for to Fall in Battaile, to maintaine/Gods worship, truth, extirpate Popery.’ In addition, the castle was at the lowest point in the middle of an open expanse that allowed superb views of the enemy's activities. Charlotte had assembled a militia of seasoned marksmen who were able to inflict significant losses by sniping. Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911), "Townships: Tottington", A History of the County of Lancaster, vol.5, Institute of Historical Research Extraordinary: meticulously researched, beautifully written, and heartbreakingly relevant. I urge you to read it.Newstead, G. Coulthard (1893), Gleanings towards the annals of Aughton, near Ormskirk, Liverpool: Ratcliffe This is a great book for those interested in the English Civil War. Great attention to detail and excellent sources. I particularly loved the first chapters that were rich in character development and history. Focusing in on the battles at Basing House left space for the interesting stories and relationships between the characters. Olivia Rodrigo is dating British actor Louis Partridge after meeting 'through mutual friends' and hitting it off after a number of nights out in London Young, Peter (1970), Marston Moor 1644: The Campaign and the Battle, Kineton: Roundwood, ISBN 1-900624-09-5 This heroic story has not been told before in such detail and with such an eye for the tragedies of civil war. Childs handles a remarkable amount of source material with masterly skill…Thrilling.