Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
Gresham College Lectures
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The French Revolution - The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Charles Dickens' words on the French Revolution offer something of a fitting epilogue to the story of the English Revolution. The experience of there being this enormous army was a really defining one of the period. People's exhaustion with war was very great and many of the deaths that were caused by civil war were caused by the consequences, disease, deprivation, famine following it.
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