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The Road to Civil War: Class Conflict and Constitutional Crisis in Stuart England, 1603-1650

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Ireland and Scotland - A Throwback to the Middle Ages

Scots, which is actually just a northern dialect of english, became the main language in those lowland towns. And the lowlands became protestant. Rit of the scottish church was seized by a group of reformers called the lords of the congregation in edinburgh and reformed to become a calvinist presbyterian church. So scotland was ready divided by the time king james came to power. There. Ireland was also severely divided and a terribly unequal society. You had a divide between the elite and the peasantry. The elites were mostly of english or norman extraction originally. And they were mostly protestant. Not all, they were largely protestant.

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