Clare Jackson

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In Our Time · The Levellers · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

Three of these mutineers are then taken out to the churchyard, Corporal Perkins, Corporal Church, Cornett Thompson and executed.

And then, I mean, there's another standoff in Oxford.

So these are suppressed very quickly.

And again, that's some of the reason for the slightly ambivalent sense of subsequent historians who want to venerate Cromwell as this great military strategist.

Military discipline is really important to these people.

And the idea that there has been dissent in the ranks is quite difficult to accommodate into this sort of heroic story.

I mean, Burford is one of those sort of very dramatic moments.

And that's exactly why Tony Benn went to go and give this lecture in Burford Church in 1976.

So I absolutely believe it's the war of three kingdoms.

That's because I started my career as a Scottish historian and all of my career has been interested in the interplay of events in England, Scotland and Wales.

I think as a shorthand, I'm happy with English Civil Wars rather than the English Civil War.

I think War of the Three Kingdoms has become a term that's more often current in academia and I don't think it's quite caught on.

But absolutely, this is a single king, Charles I, ruling over three separate kingdoms, each of which has a different confessional complexion to its neighbour.

And Charles I's authority unravels first in Scotland in the late 1630s and then in Ireland and then in England.

And...

I mean, different historians have characterized it in different ways.

Conrad Russell talked about a sort of billiard ball effect.

It's just simply that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for Charles to solve one of these kingdoms without there being ramifications in the other.

And the English...

become quite resentful of the constant interference of Scottish and Irish events on their politics.

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