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OU on the BBC: Civil War - About the series

OU on the BBC: Civil War - About the series Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 02 Sep 2008
By The Civil War team
The English Civil War was part of a wider struggle for supremacy between Catholics and Protestants in Europe.
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OU on the BBC: Civil War

OU on the BBC: Civil War Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 02 Sep 2008
By The Civil War team
Tristram Hunt tells the not-too-distant story of how the King was toppled and a Commonwealth established - only for Monarchy to return.
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Aftershocks - The Republic

Aftershocks - The Republic Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
With the King gone, how would the Kingdom fare as a Republic?
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The Earl of Strafford

The Earl of Strafford Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
One of Charles' staunchest supporters: Meet the Earl of Strafford
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Endgame - Regicide

Endgame - Regicide Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
The King had gone too far - and Parliament weighed the ultimate sanction: Regicide
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The English Response

The English Response Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
Rumours of outrages and suspicions of the Irish shaped the English response
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Year of Miracles

Year of Miracles Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
With Parliamentarian armies occupied in England, Royalist forces made short work of Scottish opponents and had a year of miracles
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Timeline 1646

Timeline 1646 Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
A year-by-year guide to the key events of the Civil War
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Tremors - James VI / I and the Union of Crowns

Tremors - James VI / I and the Union of Crowns Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
James Stuart moved two nations closer together through the Union of the Crowns
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Aftershocks - The Restoration

Aftershocks - The Restoration Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
The imperfect development of political consciousness in the mid- seventeenth century is revealed in the Stuart Restoration
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