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English civil war

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What if… Empress Matilda had defeated King Stephen?

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The Interregnum: Britain’s republican decade

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Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

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The dark truth about Oliver Cromwell

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Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power

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The Civil War: everything you wanted to know

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The Civil War cross-dressers: the women who swapped dresses for breeches

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10 great misconceptions of the Civil War

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Oliver Cromwell: the secret of his military genius

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8 of Britain’s best battlefields

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Q&A Did women fight in the British Civil Wars?

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The history of… re-enacting battles

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