I just finished Nicolas Rodger’s epic first volume of naval history, Safeguard of the Sea. I’ve posted about the book itself elsewhere. But it finishes with the end of the ECW, and the advent of the Rump Parliament.
I’ve been getting interested in the ECW, or rather Wars, for some time, of late. Partly from a potential wargaming perspective. But more so from an interest in the politics of the era.
As Rodger points out, much of the politics of those years aligned with differing varieties of Christian ‘faith’. Broadly speaking the ‘Arminian’ High Anglicanism of the King was (and still is!) barely distinguishable from Catholicism, whereas Protestantism was (and still is), an, ahem… very broad and fractious church, wherein we find many troublesome and uppity agitators.
I’ve been intending to watch the Mollo/Brownlow film Winstanley for absolutely ages. I really ought to do so, ASAP. My only issue is that I’ll prob’ have to pay to watch it. So, do I just buy it, on DVD?