Hello everyone and welcome back to the history of England, episode 387, Cinews of War.

In the last episode, we heard about the aftermath of Turnham Green, where those oyster women

have London turned them green.

About the King's return to Oxford, where he set up many of the functions of government

and the flood of royalists from London began to come in.

We heard about the opening salvos in a war that was turning into a series of regional and

indeed parish conflict.

With the royalists in the lead in the north and west, Parliament with their noses affront

in the south and east.

And we heard about the failure of Parliament's latest appeal for peace, the death of the Oxford

Treaty in early 1643.

Now, plots boiler.

We are of course about to launch into a new world of fightinus, into this fallen Frank

Exchange of Views otherwise known as the English Revolution, but, just to set expectations

for this episode, there will not be much of the crack of the musket or boom of the certain

time this time.

We're going to talk sinews of war people, money, strategy, diplomacy, secret plans,

and clever tricks.

That sort of thing.

And also, those foundations that allowed people to prosecute, shooting, pushing, shoving

and grunting stuff that comes later and, you know, screaming and bleeding, you know,

anyway, next time for that.

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