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2. Sites by re-enactment groups 

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3. Causes of the conflict 

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• The causes of the English Civil War The causes of the English Civil War. A simple straightforward page to start you thinking. Includes a grid to complete to help plan out your ideas.
• The Causes of the English Civil War  This from the BBC sponsored h2g2 site. Most of the content on h2g2 is generated by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. This is an essay on the background to the wars. At the end are conversation rooms to discuss causes with others.
• The English Civil War: The Breakdown - Introduction The Breakdown of relationships in the nations.  From English Civil War A UK Open University site. Useful introduction to Causes.
• Identifying causes Introduction from an OU study unit focusing on the seventeenth-century crises in the British Isles that led, in the 1640s, to the Civil Wars between parliamentarians and royalists in England. Includes description, analysis and documents. Takes a "British" view showing also how Scotland experienced both wars against England and a protracted religious civil war. Ireland saw a Catholic rebellion in 1641 turn into a concerted campaign to render Catholics economically and politically impotent. Although making use of a specific document text book, this is very useful to students of the period in general.
• Historiography of Civil War: A casahistoria netguide in lecture note format. PDF file  and requires adobe reader. For more casahistoria netguide revision go to IB/Alevel/K12 revision in the young casahistoria section.
• How the Historians have viewed the causes of the English Civil War basic coverage of key interpretations from Whitby High School.  §
• What’s in a Name: The Death of the English Civil War Martyn Bennett examines how the terminology we use about the great conflict of the mid-seventeenth century reflects and reinforces the interpretations we make. Published in History Review, 2003 Currently free access. May change and trial subscription needed.
• The English Context of the British Civil Wars John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated. Published in History Today, Volume: 48. Currently free access. May change and trial subscription needed.

• The Breakdown - Early years of Charles I Not having been born to the throne, there were many mistakes in the early reign of Charles I. From the English Civil War a UK Open University site.
• The origins of the wars of the three kingdoms. From another OU study unit focusing on the seventeenth-century crises in the British Isles  Key sections on personal rule of Charles I:
  • Charles I and the eleven years’ personal rule in England and Wales
  • Financing government
  • The king and the church
  • Personal rule or tyranny 1629–40?

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4. Taking Sides 

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• Choosing Sides in the English Civil War Useful examination of the decisions to be made. By Dr Mark Stoyle (Lecturer at the University of Southampton. His publications include Loyalty and Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War (1994) and West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State (2001).) BBC web series
• Taking Sides From very useful BBC & Open University site mentioned in Section 1.
• Why did Charles I fight the Civil War? Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him. Published in History Today, Volume: 34 Issue: 6. Currently free access. May change and trial subscription needed.