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War
1642–1651 CE
The English Civil War began in 1642 after years of political and religious conflict between Charles I and Parliament. The First Civil War ended with the destruction of the king’s main armies, but renewed royalist risings and a Scottish invasion produced a Second Civil War in 1648. Charles I was executed in 1649, yet the conflict continued when Charles II allied with the Scottish Covenanters and led the final campaign that ended at Worcester in 1651.
The wars mattered because they challenged the foundations of monarchy, obedience and representative government. Parliament created the New Model Army, soldiers became a political force and regicide became a reality. Fighting, siege, requisitioning and disease left deep local scars across England while the connected wars devastated communities in Scotland and Ireland.
English Civil War fiction includes Michael Arnold’s Stryker series, Giles Kristian’s Bleeding Land trilogy and Pamela Belle’s Heron family novels.
Series
The Highway Trilogy is a young-adult sequence set during the final years and aftermath of the English Civil Wars. It centres on Abigail and Ralph Chaplin and on Lady Katherine Fanshawe, a fictionalised version of Katherine Ferrers, whose later legend associated her with the ‘Wicked Lady’ highwaywoman. The…
Books
Non-Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
