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Civil War London Jordan S. Downs

Civil War London By Jordan S. Downs

Civil War London by Jordan S. Downs


Summary

London's mobilisation proved crucial to parliament's success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army that would defeat the king of England.

Civil War London Summary

Civil War London: Mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5 by Jordan S. Downs

This book looks at London's provision of financial and military support for parliament's war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London's vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital's 'parliamentarian' makeup. It reveals interactions between London's Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament's eventual success in the English Civil War.

Civil War London Reviews

'Civil War London is a commendable and meticulously researched study, and one which should be read by all who are interested in the civil wars, civic history, popular politics, print culture, religion, and social and economic history. Hopefully it will also usher in a new age which restores and extends local (or in this case municipal) history in exciting and innovative directions.'
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About Jordan S. Downs

Jordan S. Downs is Lecturer in History at University of California, Riverside

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 London, Ireland and the Protestant cause
2 Mobilising the metropolis
3 A third house of parliament
4 London's levee en masse
5 A 'rebellious city'?
Index

Additional information

NGR9781526174444
9781526174444
1526174448
Civil War London: Mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5 by Jordan S. Downs
New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2023-09-26
344
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