Wars and Rumours of Wars

This lecture argues that engagement in war vitally shaped the relationship of Henry VIII's subjects with the king and with his immediate successors. Their idea of national history and their place in it, and their sense of Englishness, Welshness, or Englishness in Ireland. 

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

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. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and philosophy of warfare. The British historian Edward Gibbon wrote: “Every age, however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.” War, it seems, is one of mankind’s most constant com ...  Show more

<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>