
347 The English Revolution
The History of England
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The History of the English Revolution
The title rebellion sort of gives it away. After the restoration, the history language and heroes that you quoted from the period were heavily, heavily loaded and said something about your views. This is because we want the english revolution to be what we want it to be. It's much more attractive in this day and age to see the parliamentary side, to be selfless laborers after liberty. So the religious extremities rather get in the way of that. A bit like the scottish revolution, actually. You'd think the covenant would be much celebrated thing in scotland,. But no, the big national story is all about a couple of baronial warlords winning civil war in the th
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