{"id":11075,"date":"2023-04-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/?page_id=11075"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:35:13","slug":"11075-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/11075-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#ed570b;font-size:59px\">Welcome to the &#8216;Commons in the Civil Wars&#8217; blog series<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:38px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/category\/commons-in-the-civil-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to read our blog posts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Produced in celebration of the History of Parliament&#8217;s groundbreaking Commons 1640-1660  volumes, due to be published in summer 2023, posts here highlight some of the interesting stories, events and figures from this tumultuous time in parliamentary politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"240\" data-attachment-id=\"11081\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/11075-2\/1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C341&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,341\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1.jpg?fit=720%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1640-60s-sm-banner1024_1-1.jpg?resize=720%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11081\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Blogs are written by the team behind the House of Commons 1640-1660 project, edited by Dr Stephen Roberts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/?p=11067\">Find out more about the publication in this introductory blog<\/a>, or head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/history-of-parliament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publication page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/category\/commons-in-the-civil-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to view all blogs in the Commons in the Civil Wars series!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the &#8216;Commons in the Civil Wars&#8217; blog series Click here to read our blog posts Produced in celebration of the History of Parliament&#8217;s groundbreaking Commons 1640-1660 volumes, due to be published in summer 2023, posts here highlight some of the interesting stories, events and figures from this tumultuous time in parliamentary politics. 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