Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
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The Civil War and Marchment Needham
Marchment Needham was a newspaper editor one of the very first and he like most people didn't as it were espoused aside within the civil war other than for professional reasons. Marchment Needham saw the civil war and the Republic as an brilliant opportunity to turn a to turn a profit so he started off as a as the editor of a parliamentarian newspaper but switched sides at the moment when parliament was about start winning the civil war. He then managed to persuade the republican government who had clapped him in prison that they should release him and employ him instead how does this compare with contemporary parallel? I mean these were maybe these stories are not told very often but they're but they're fantastic
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