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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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Winter in Oxford

Winter in Oxford Copyrighted image Credit: indiekidsdontdance under CC-BY-NC-SA licence
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
Getting to grips with the power of the press - Charles made good use of his winter in Oxford
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Charles I

Charles I Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
Vain, arrogant, short-sighted and cruel. Meet King Charles I
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The Putney Debates

The Putney Debates Creative commons image Credit: Jim Linwood under CC-BY licence
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
Questions of suffrage and property were at the heart of the Putney Debates
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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury 1573 - 1645

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury 1573 - 1645 Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
Lowly-born, rising to be Archbishop, but ultimately executed.
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War in the West Country

War in the West Country Creative commons image Credit: bartmaguire under CC-BY-NC-SA licence
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
With stalemate in Wales, the stakes were raised for the war in the West Country
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Timeline 1642

Timeline 1642 Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 15 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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Total war - 1645

Total war - 1645 Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
It was to be a year in which the vector of victory would swoop round: 1645
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The Highland Dimension

The Highland Dimension Copyrighted image Credit: Wark Clements
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 07 Jan 2001
By The Civil War team
Religion and taxes were nothing alongside clan loyalties, skewing the Highland Dimension
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