Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss English towns during the Civil War, and how the royalist-parliamentarian divide ran through every community.
Destruction of the Keep, English Civil War, Scarborough Castle, 1645, by Ivan Lapper. Via English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images
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