![]() Stepping into this ideological minefield, and drawing extensively on the revisionists, comes Diane Purkiss, with her ‘people’s history’ of the Civil War. Others have broadened their scope to argue that the pivotal involvement of Ireland and Scotland requires us to call the conflict ‘the Wars of the Three Kingdoms’. Instead, historians have sought explanations for the causes of the civil conflict in local internecine conflicts over trade, religion, social status, and of course religion. The historical revisionism that began in the 1970s has persuasively rejected the Whig and Marxist views of the Civil War as a bourgeois revolution, which inexorably propelled us all towards parliamentary democracy. Learn more about the wars, the people who. ![]() The grand historical narratives of the war that raged from 1642 to 1649, written by the likes of the Victorian Samuel Gardiner and later Dame Veronica Wedgwood, are these days regarded as unfashionable, qualified into virtual irrelevance by an avalanche of recent micro-studies of the causes, effects and practices of every facet of seventeenth-century English political, social and domestic life. The English Civil Wars were a catastrophic series of conflicts that took place in the middle of the 17th century. ![]() It is a brave, some might say foolish writer who embarks on a history of the English Civil War these days. ![]()
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