ColonelThomasPride

A new edition of Nehemiah Wharton's letters, a soldier's first months of the English Civil War, returning to the sources to correct the errors and omissions of the 1853 edition. Available for your Kindle or in print: amazon.co.uk/Hatched-Hell-E… #military #History #books

Simon Jenkins, former editor of the UK Times, once wrote the following: "A man of my acquaintance was addressed, when a child, on the subject of Oliver Cromwell. The speaker was a lady of 91. She told him sternly never to speak ill of the great man. She went on: "My husband's first wife's first husband knew Oliver Cromwell - and liked him well." It was an admonition my friend has not forgotten."

@druidtombraider Of course.

@Cromwell_Buff @RutlandLHRS @leicestermuseum @EastMidlandsHH @CarolynMCash @emswifthook @world_turned @Worc_Reenactors @kirsteenMM @17thCenturyLady "Folklore" surely?

My article in @RutlandLHRS strips away myth and folk law to uncover the destruction, personal ambition & brutality of the Civil War in #Rutland & the royalist defence of North Luffenham in 1643. #EnglishCivilWar #Rutland #academic #History Cost £5: genfair.co.uk/product/rutlan…

The English as a revolutionary people. Today is the anniversary of Pride's Purge, when radical officers removed moderate parliamentarians from Parliament in a coup d'état that led to regicide and revolution. God save the Lord Protector! youtu.be/N4e43Od3Uk4?si…

@ColonelPrideRev @IanJ21289455 Not that I'm aware. The fleet for the Western Design was provisioned with cider - thought to a better drink for tropical climes as it was pressed from fruit, which was thought to cool the blood.

@Cromwell_Buff @IanJ21289455 Was his beer used in the Western Design?

Naval Beer. Anybody ever drank Pride's beers? Pride's Purge sounds like a wonderful purgative.

Did you know #OnThisDay in 1648, there was a military coup in England? Known as Pride’s Purge, soldiers from the New Modell’d Army excluded moderate MPs from Parliament, leaving more radical MPs to take action against Charles I, leading to his trial and execution in January 1649

A crowd gathering at the Banqueting House in Whitehall to witness the execution of King Charles I on the 30th of January 1649

King Charles I escorted to his execution

@MARKCORNER16 Why is there a Welsh hill in Yorkshire?

Pen y Ghent, under its winter duvet this morning

"The King [is] but at the most the chief publike Officer of this Kingdom, and accomptable to this House (the Representative of the People, from whom all just Authority is, or ought to be derived)..." The Levellers’ ‘Humble Petition’ was presented to Parliament #OTD 1648.

Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.

In 1642 Herefordshire parliamentarian Lady Brilliana Harley was unamused by #MayDay celebrations at Ludlow: "they set up a May pole, and a thing like a head upon it . . . and gathered a great many about it, and shot at it in derision of roundheads" #17thCentury #History

If you're interested in learning more about the 'Roundhead' hospitals in civil war London, have a read of my blog: jollyregicide.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/no-… #17thcentury #London #History #militaryhistory

Nice potted history of Ely Place, London. During the Civil War it served as a prison for captured royalists, and in the First Dutch War (1652-4) it was a military hospital: surviving records reference its “hot house”, evidently a kind of therapeutic sauna. #London #History

Crucifix-dagger, cca 1650, Spain

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This could be a depiction of a Saracen face shield, perhaps a nod to the saint's near Eastern origins #StGeorgesDay

"Have you watched Adolescence yet?"

@BPookArt Perhaps the second word is 'Macara', the name of the 92nd's colonel who had been killed at Quatre Bras. “Where’s Macara?” the kilted warriors shouted as their bayonets thrust into Frenchmen - warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/scotti…

Waterloo 1970 poll! (Clip is in comments) Nobody has a definite answer on this one. What's the line? "92nd will advance,...