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As Kevin Phillips argued in The Cousins’ Wars, America’s revolution and Civil War replayed Britain’s wars of Roundheads and Cavaliers. The rebels of 1776 and the federal authorities of 1861 ...
How modern Britain is still defined by the battle between Cavaliers (panache, pleasure and individuality) and Roundheads (modesty, discipline, equality, and state intervention). Show more In the ...
A better key to understanding him is an older British political divide, which goes back to the civil war of the 1640s: Roundheads versus Cavaliers. British pundits have long played the game of ...
The debate below about circumcision has gotten fast and furious. I stand in the untenable position of neither believing that circumcision should be promoted by the authorities as a "health" precaution ...
He replied almost at once: “Roundheads and Cavaliers.” Now it is no surprise that a historian of his ideological bent, with an intelligence wholly informed by worldly concerns, would answer in ...
In this second episode, we hear about some of the bloodiest battles between Roundheads and Cavaliers, the leaders who came to the fore during these trying years and how the two sides eventually ...
The only way to get change is to take the step.'' The QC's bold move seems to have divided the bar between the ''cavaliers and roundheads'' - those who support what he has done and the ...
Sellar and R. J. Yeatman cast the English civil war of the 17th century as a conflict between the “Wrong but Romantic” Cavaliers and the “Right but Revolting” Roundheads. The aftermath of ...