Clare Jackson
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And that's the one that gets circulated to stir up support for his release when he's in prison.
So there are paper bullets flying everywhere, if you like, as well as bullets on the battlefield.
So the Putney debates, as we think of them now, were discussions within the army with some civilian influence that took place in the autumn of 1648.
They didn't have that sort of coherence among contemporaries.
They wouldn't have referred to anything like sort of the Putney debates in the way that we do as a shorthand now.
Because that, again, is almost like the serendipity of how we know what happened.
Theresa mentioned ago the transcript that we have.
And the transcript that we have, we owe to the shorthand skills of a young army secretary, William Clark, who was present and noted in a newly learned shorthand verbatim what happened at Putney University.
So the army is camped about six miles upstream along the Thames.
And the army has got very used now to sort of debating how on earth it's going to, you know, what it wants as part of a durable settlement.
But those transcripts lay, hidden in plain sight, but they lay in Worcester College, Oxford for over 200 years before they were discovered towards the end of the 19th century.
A young military historian, Charles Firth, was given a tip off by the college librarian and then set to, it's interesting,
Well, Clarke himself had started decoding his own shorthand during the Restoration.
So in 1662, Clarke started decoding his shorthand notes that he'd taken in 1647.
And then he didn't live to finish them.
He was killed in the Anglo-Dutch Wars in the mid-1660s.
And actually Firth didn't venture into the shorthand.
He just reproduced the bits that Clarke himself had transcribed.
But the late 19th century is probably the first time as well that professional historians begin to get...
very detailed reconstructions of events during this incredibly complicated and convoluted period.
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