Oxford at War: The City During the English Civil Wars
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Dr Lloyd Bowen
- Host
- History (Department)
- Series
- Oxford Lifelong Learning event’s programme
- Location
- Rewley House, Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2JA, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
In-person lecture-style day event Our team of expert speakers will uncover the ways in which the experiences of civil war and its aftermath affected life in seventeenth-century Oxford. We will explore how the city and university adapted to becoming the cavalier capital and the seat of royalist government. We will discuss how the royalist military government interacted with the city corporation and the university authorities, as well as the sacrifices imposed upon Oxonians to support the royalist cause. We will ask what was everyday life like for the citizens, students and soldiers of the garrison? Our study day will also consider Oxford’s role as a printing centre for the royalist cause, and how rival parliamentarian pamphlets and newsbooks tended to depict Oxford in their wartime propaganda. We will also examine the consequences of the city’s surrender in June 1646. How did the victorious parliamentarians treat the city’s inhabitants and how were the corporation and university transformed during the Interregnum? Please note: this event will close to enrolments at 23:59 on 14 April 2027.
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