PugJesusThe Puritans who stole Christmas!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1908415/the-puritans-who-stole-christmas
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe #HouseOfLords was effectively abolished during the #EnglishCivilWar due to a Commons act from #ThisDayInHistory in 1649. During the Restoration that was ignored, so the UK still has that ridiculous body โ only now it's largely appointed, feeding partisan power & corruption.
Ben JeapesIt's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is KNIFE. The Holekhor know more than your average C17 Brit: like, why you don't operate with dirty knives, or fire guns on airships. #bookqw #englishcivilwar #airships https://www.benjeapes.com/index.php/novels/new-world-order/
Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
#KingCharlesI dissolved parliament in 1629 on #ThisDayInHistory, beginning an 11-year period of English #Absolutism called the Personal Rule. When he needed more tax revenue & called a new parliament in 1640, it resulted in the #EnglishCivilWar. France should have paid attention.
BrewminatePolitical brilliance can be self-defeating. โ๏ธ๐ฅ
George Digbyโs intellect and rhetorical skill made him a formidable royalist figure during the English Civil War.
Yet instability and bold miscalculations complicated his legacy.
Influence demands more than talent. It requires steadiness.
#EnglishCivilWar #StuartEngland #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/george-digby-brilliance-and-recklessness/
Punkrock History47 years ago today
"English Civil War" is a song by English punk rock band the Clash, featured on their second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope, and released as a single on 23 February 1979
#punk #punks #punkrock #englishcivilwar #theclash #punkrockhistory #otd
Martin#KeirStarmer and #YvetteCooper's persistent blaming of #advisors for their horrendous blunders is starting to sound like talk from the #EnglishCivilWar period.
#JeffreyEpstein #TheEpsteinFiles #PalestineAction #UnlawfulProscription #LabourTogether #TheKingsWickedAdvisors
Yes, I'm the PURITAN who stole CHRISTMAS!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1751744/yes-i-m-the-puritan-who-stole-christmas
It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is YELLOW. England, 1645, and King and Parliament are at each other's throats, but there is a third power at large in the land. #bookqw #englishcivilwar https://www.benjeapes.com/index.php/novels/new-world-order/
Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
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Elizabeth Alkin (c.โ1600 โ c.โ1655) was a publisher, nurse and spy for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War (1642โ1651). She was also commonly known as Parliamentary Joan, one of many derogatory names she was called by royalist sympathisers. Little is known about Alkin's early life. Her husband was arrested and ...
#EnglishCivilWar #Alkin #Oxford #Portsmouth #London #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Alkin
