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347 The English Revolution

The History of England

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Local Politics vs National Politics

In northamptonshire it looks like a classic torniask, bourgeois revolution. In leicestershire their biggest obsession was not wat these grand tives at the top of government. Sussex seems to divide geographically between a parliamentarian east and a royal west. Kent was dominated by gentry rather than magnates, but most of them just wanted to keep their heads down and avoid the whole thing. I mean, i could go on, but you get the message. It's a mess, a patchwork, a quilt. And one conclusion reached by the likes of clive holmes was that we'd been over obsessing about national politics and king versus parliament anyway.

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