BBC History - The Life & Times Of The Stuarts 2016_
feast, which he had published as long ago as 1631 – was clearly motivated by a desire to stir up popular resentment as well as t ...
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63 H is name has been inscribed on a column commemorating revolutionary heroes in Alexander Garden, Moscow; his life has been ce ...
Cromwell / Gerrard Winstanley War, a time of unprecedented religious experimentation born of de facto toleration and freedom of ...
In The True Levellers Standard Advanced, Winstanley defended this action as authorised by parliament’s war to defend English lib ...
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F rom Hollywood to Harry Potter, witches have been viewed with macabre fascination for centuries. But behind the stereotypical b ...
and Wales, it was permitted in Scotland, and less ‘formal’ types of torture were used at a local level, often presided over by a ...
Stuart life / War on witches 3 Brandeston village Suffolk http://www.brandeston.net As the witch hunting momentum grew, self-a ...
1 Pendle Hill, Lancashire 2 Taunton Castle, Somerset 3 Brandeston village, Suffolk 4 Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh 5 Exeter Castle ...
Alistair Dougall describes how Puritan attempts to ban games such as football, wrestling and bowling divided the people of Engla ...
73 The title page for a collection of poems published in 1636 celebrating Robert Dover’s ‘Cotswold Olimpicks’. ...
Stuart life / Bad sports “People were allowed to take part in fencing, archery, leaping and vaulting after they had attended chu ...
minister, William Clough, who told his congregation: “The king of Heauen doth bid you keepe his Sabboath... the king of England ...
Stuart life / Bad sports determined to assert his authority in this matter. He believed in the power of the pulpit, once telling ...
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Stuart life / Breaking the mould Nicolaes Maes’s Lady In Red is a study in self-assurance. Similarly, the Verney archive shows w ...
The Life And Times Of The Stuarts 79 Adrian Tinniswood is the author of The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in CO ...
Stuart life / Dressing to impress Women of substance in the 17 th century took delight in wearing the latest styles from London. ...
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