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Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

The Second Bishops' War

The fragile peace finally breaks, and Alexander Leslie leads the Army of the Covenant into England. The Scots go out of their way to avoid violence against the English population, determined to keep their southern neighbours on their side. Charles' ill-prepared army musters to stop them.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions


Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War


Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed


Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660


Harris, T. Rebellion 

Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars


James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000


Smith, David, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689


Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648


Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War



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