Destruction of the Keep, English Civil War, Scarborough Castle, 1645, by Ivan Lapper. Via English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images

The town besieged

During the English Civil War, towns were fiercely divided

Podcast

Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss English towns during the Civil War, and how the royalist-parliamentarian divide ran through every community.

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