{"id":20381,"date":"2024-07-19T22:51:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=20381"},"modified":"2024-09-29T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:24:12","slug":"media-history-by-the-sword-divided-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=20381","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/TV: By The Sword Divided, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6671-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6671-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6671-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6671-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6671-1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A screenshot of the titles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I started watching <em>By The Sword Divided<\/em>, a BBC TV series from the early \u201880s that I dimly recall from childhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason I\u2019ve been thinking about the ECW, or English Civil War, quite a bit recently. A recurring fantasy being to sculpt wargaming figures for the conflict, or go see a Sealed knot re-enactment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oew2gnW52_Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">By the local (Huntingdon) Cromwell Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found the entire series, currently available on YouTube. And watched the first three episodes. I love it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s funny, because the music, from the theme tune to the programme to the incidental stuff, also appeals. And is very like a good deal of the David Munrow stuff I\u2019ve been getting into. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6668-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6668-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6668-1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A 7\u201d single of the theme music!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m minded to delve into the earthier and folksier works of The City Waites, an early \u2018musicke\u2019 ensemble who are featured in the series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6666.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6666.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6666-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Radio Times!? We used to get it\u2026*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* Some folk &#8211; our neighbour Mel, for one (she doesn\u2019t have internet) &#8211; still do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I started watching By The Sword Divided, a BBC TV series from the early \u201880s that I dimly recall from childhood. For some reason I\u2019ve been thinking about the ECW, or English Civil War, quite a bit recently. A recurring fantasy being to sculpt wargaming figures for the conflict, or go see a Sealed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=20381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA\/TV: By The Sword Divided, 1983&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-5iJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23584,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions\/23584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}