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53. Civil War! Lansdown Hill, Bath.

In this podcast we’re travelling the sharp end of a war which ripped the British Isles apart.

King Charles I went head to head with increasingly bold Parliamentarians. Bitter, internecine politics and deadly powerplays led to opposing armies being raised, and a bloody civil war swept across the whole of the British Isles. Families, neighbours and lifelong friends were pitted against each another as people were compelled to pick a side and face each other in the blood and gore of lethal combat.

In the beautiful rolling hills of the west country, near the city of Bath, a brutal battle was…

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