THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: MYTHS, LEGEND & POPULAR MEMORY.
Code: C202
Price: £25
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
294pp., 8 plates. 2024. Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented.