🌧️ Rain at the Battle of Maidstone 🌧️

From marching to fighting, from plundering to severe punishment — what was life like for ordinary soldiers during the British Civil Wars? Find out 👉️ earlofmanchesters.co.uk/life-as-an-e...

From marching to fighting, from plundering to severe punishment — what was life like for ordinary soldiers during the British Civil Wars? Find out 👉️ earlofmanchesters.co.uk/life-as-an-e...

“Charge Your Pikes!” ⚔️ While the reenactment pikes we use today on the battlefield don’t have points (for obvious reasons), the pikes of the English Civil Wars would have been tipped with razor-sharp steel points. 📸: Michael Molcher

Three goes at taking Gosford Bridge 💥💥💥 The (short) story of how failing to take a bridge near Oxford three times gave King Charles the chance to fight another day... 🧵 📷 John Beardsworth

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Three goes at taking Gosford Bridge 💥💥💥 The (short) story of how failing to take a bridge near Oxford three times gave King Charles the chance to fight another day... 🧵 📷 John Beardsworth

While we may know the their officers' names, common soldiers often remain nameless & voiceless, leaving the true story of the Civil Wars — the human cost — untold. But this is the story, such as we can tell it, of the men of the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment earlofmanchesters.co.uk/the-men-who-...

It's the end of the week — pub? “An honest Alehouse, where we shall find a cleanly room, Lavender in the windowes, and twenty Ballads stuck about the wall” — this was the description given by Izaak Walton in ‘The Compleat Angler’ in 1653 🧵

🥵 🥵 How did people keep cool when their clothes were predominantly made of wool and intended for lower temperatures...? 🧵 📷️ Sheridan Photography

🥵 🥵 How did people keep cool when their clothes were predominantly made of wool and intended for lower temperatures...? 🧵 📷️ Sheridan Photography

“Did not the Lord make all men and women upon the earth of one mould, why then should there be so much honour and respect unto some men and women, and not unto others?” The Quaker preacher and writer Hester Biddle prays in her prison cell after being arrested... 🧵 📷 John Beardsworth

“Did not the Lord make all men and women upon the earth of one mould, why then should there be so much honour and respect unto some men and women, and not unto others?” The Quaker preacher and writer Hester Biddle prays in her prison cell after being arrested... 🧵 📷 John Beardsworth

Struggling in the heat? Visit an archive. Sweet sweet temperature control for the sake of the documents. Also, they have cool documents.

You're tired and dusty after a hot day of battle, but it all comes down to this moment – we're all together, in a beer tent, screaming our heads off to Radiohead with friends we've known for decades and those we've just met vm.tiktok.com/ZNRW8Vwhq/

You're tired and dusty after a hot day of battle, but it all comes down to this moment – we're all together, in a beer tent, screaming our heads off to Radiohead with friends we've known for decades and those we've just met vm.tiktok.com/ZNRW8Vwhq/

We know we’ve said this before but … phew, what a scorcher! While the rest of the country sought relief from the weather, we all spent our late May Bank Holiday donning woollen clothes and going into battle at Colchester Living History Fair 😂 earlofmanchesters.co.uk/going-back-t...

What role did standard bearers play during the Civil War?

What role did standard bearers play during the Civil War?

The Commonwealth is Established!

So pleased to be starting this new project on royalist exiles in Paris attached to Queen Henrietta Maria's court, 1644-60. Thank you @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding this research! @openuniversity.bsky.social

The Siege of Colchester ⚔️ By the summer of 1648, England was once again sliding into chaos. The Second Civil War had erupted as Royalist uprisings, Scottish intervention, and anger at Parliament reignited conflict across the country. 📷: Levitt Parkes

A skirmish between England and Sweden! Throughout the English Civil Wars, Sweden remained neutral, preferring to sell arms to both sides while prioritising their conflict in Europe. But on the 1st May 1647, the forces of England and Sweden skirmished near the Isle of Wight... 🧵 📸: Katherine Corr

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The Prosecution of John Hampden MP🧑‍⚖️ With the Ship Money tax proving deeply unpopular, King Charles needed to set an example to stop any more resistance. A test case to confirm the legality of Ship Money was set up, and of those who refused to pay it, John Hampden was chosen. 📷: Simon Hill Photos

What happened at the Battle of Stratton?

Why did King Charles escape from Hampton Court?

When you need to be fashionably dressed, but you are also going to fight hevy cavalry today... Musée de l'Armée, Paris. #earlymodern #hats #fashionhistory

Cut Down By Cavalry 🐴⚔️ Before the invention of the bayonet, musketeers were particularly vulnerable to attack by mounted troops, usually requiring protection from pikemen if they were under threat. 📷: Levitt Parkes

On the latest WTUD, @edlegon.bsky.social discusses the connection between religion and the cloth trade, and its importance in nurturing opposition to King Charles and his government www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/nurt...

Just a week to go until the The Sealed Knot's next big event at Colchester Living History Festival — promises to be a spectacular show on a great Bank Holiday weekend! Book tickets here: www.alresfordhall.com/colchester-l...

What did the Pope think about the English Civil Wars? 🤔

The King’s (and Parliament’s) Gunfounder 💥 A merchant by trade, John Browne was the first holder of the post of King’s Gunfounder, supplying cannons to the monarchy from his furnaces across Kent and Sussex. 📷: Mel Green

12 May 1641: John Lilburne, future Leveller, is involved in a fracas with constables #otd while attending the Earl of Strafford's execution on Tower Hill (BM)

Henrietta Maria c. 1640-50 By Richard Gibson (1615-90) (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

Who was George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol?

Team Match or Team Flint? 💥 Although both matchlock and flintlock muskets were used in the English Civil Wars, the matchlock was by far the most common type of musket on the battlefield. 📷 1: David Rowlinson 📷 2: Cherie White

At the Restoration in 1660, it was agreed that Charles II's reign began immediately following the death of Charles I a decade earlier, essentially ignoring the Interregnum. Some documents were even retroactively given a regnal year, like this 1649 Commonwealth record dated 1 Car. 2 [E 133/145/72]

How did an extraordinary act of espionage open the way for the creation of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company?

Team Match or Team Flint? 💥 Although both matchlock and flintlock muskets were used in the English Civil Wars, the matchlock was by far the most common type of musket on the battlefield. 📷 1: David Rowlinson 📷 2: Cherie White

What role did artillery play at the Siege of Morpeth?

Just because they can't go on the battlefield yet, it doesn't mean our regiment's kids can't at least practice. Or maybe they're practicing for a future war, who knows? 🤣🤣 #Hobbies #Outdoors #SealedKnot #Reenactment #KidsActivities

Stan's face says it all — we can't stop smiling after last weekend! Part festival, part hanging out with friends, part journey into the past, become part of Manchester's and from beer tents and parties to cosy campfires there's something for everyone! Photos by SM Photography

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Roundheads and Cavaliers ⚔️ One of these soldiers is a Royalist while the other fights for Parliament, but can you tell which is which? 📷: SM Photography

Step back in time with us – wherever you are! Follow us on social media, embrace the adventure, march into thrilling battles & immersive yourself in history... ⚔️ Facebook: buff.ly/4hGiDnP ⚔️ Instagram: buff.ly/4hmcopy ⚔️ TikTok: buff.ly/4hFyWBh ⚔️ LinkedIn: buff.ly/4hHpxcs

Before the secret ballot, voting in Britain was a theatrical, violent and public affair. 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...