Kings and peoples

This lecture asks what weapons people owned in Henry VIII's England and whether they knew how to use them, some of its evidence drawn from coroners' inquests into accidents with bows, guns and swords. Exhortations to manly valour egged soldiers on to fight, but as in most wars be ...  Show more

This lecture examines war and the economy in Henry VIII's England: heavy taxation and disrupted trade threatened recession. But, arms traders, fortification builders, privateers and those who raided the Scots for their livestock, often with names familiar to followers of North-Ea ...  Show more

What war? 

In this lecture, Fr. Michael Ward surveys Lewis’s various approaches to war: the ways he found to cope with it and learn from it, and the virtues and vices that he thought it tended to prompt. 

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">A brief description of the soldiers who fought in the English Civil Wars. </span>