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Monthly Archives: April 2020

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“Fit for trading”: Susan Hill, the first wife of Edward Montagu

History, NewsBy Manchesters6th April 2020

“Fit for trading” Susan Hill, the first wife of Edward Montagu How the marriage of an inn-keeper’s daughter and a future earl reveals the rich trade in wives and titles in the last days of the court of James VI/I   In 1623, a satirical poem called “Heaven Blesse King James Our Joy” launched a…

How did a battle in Germany 11 years before the English Civil War change how it was fought?

HistoryBy Manchesters2nd April 2020

The Thirty Years War was one of the most destructive wars in European history – a vicious struggle between 1618 and 1648 which devastated large parts of the Continent. Part of the European Wars of Religion, it began when the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Bohemia attempted to curtail the religious activities of his subjects, sparking…

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