Clare Jackson
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So I think the moment we'll be talking about most today, when the level of ideas, the movement, the voices are heard most prominently, are the years 1645 to 1647.
And this is the point at which, militarily, the English Parliament has been victorious in the First Civil War.
Parliament had been fighting the king, Charles I, since 1642, but...
As we know, as much today as in the 17th century, wars aren't decided permanently on the battlefield.
There needs to be truces, ceasefires and some kind of peace settlement.
In terms of why Parliament and King had gone to war, Charles I had acceded to the thrones of Scotland, England and Ireland in 1625.
He was a deeply authoritarian monarch, believed very strongly in the divine right of kings, did not really believe in the right of others to counsel him.
And also had a specific vision of the church, the National Church, the Church of England, that many people found unacceptably popish.
And Charles found it very difficult to work with the English Parliament.
He had embarked on a controversial decade-long period of personal rule through the 1630s.
Actually, opposition to Charles didn't emerge first in England.
It emerged first in Scotland in the late 1630s.
That's where arms had first been taken up against Charles and it had necessitated him calling the English Parliament in 1640, 1641.
There was then an Irish rebellion and finally King and Parliament went to war in England in 1642.
And that is, as you said, a really bloody traumatic war.
I think somehow in our national consciousness, it probably doesn't have the...
prominence that it perhaps deserves.
But as a proportion of the population of the British Isles, more people lost their lives in the 1640s than in World War I and World War II combined.
And this is the point in 1645 where Parliament has won the war, but now has to reach some kind of settlement.
And you begin to see the fracturing, ironically, or perhaps inevitably, within Parliament between a Presbyterian majority in Parliament who can envisage some kind of settlement with the
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