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England turned Germany? The Aftermath of the Civil War in its European Context*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Ian Roy
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Many voices prophesied a destructive war for England on the eve of the Civil War. The miseries of the conflicts in Germany had been closely followed in the earliest newspapers published in England. With the outbreak of the Irish rebellion in 1641, and the consequent bloodshed, the wars were only a step away. In 1642 newsbooks and sermons vied with each other to paint the blackest picture possible of the evils in store for England, once it seemed that, at last, the nation was to be swallowed up in the general European conflagration.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 28 , December 1978 , pp. 127 - 144
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1978

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