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Episode 17: Oops… did I sing that? Ballads and political revolution and change.

Episode 17: Oops… did I sing that? Ballads and political revolution and change.

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Today we do a bit of background in how song and politics intermingle from the key years of the English Civil War and look at the ballad "LONDONS Warning-Peece,
Being, The Common-Prayers Complaint." from 1643.

LONDONS Warning-Peece, BEING, The Common-Prayers Complaint.

5 members of Parliament

Charles I

Charles I on trial

Henrietta Maria

Those who signed the death warrant of Charles I

Every tub must stand on it’s own bottom

The First Baron’s War

Hung drawn and quartered.

Black letter broadsides an intro.

List of articles and books on the impact of blackletter broadsides on The English Civil War




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