These Uncertaine Tymes - Newark & the Civilian Experience of the Civil Wars 1640-1660

By Dr Stuart B. Jennings

From parades to plague this book takes a unique look at life during the English Civil War in the besieged Nottinghamshire market town on Newark-on-Trent .

During the English Civil War (1642-46) the north Midlands town of Newark-on-Trent was besieged three times by Parliamentarian forces but never surrendered.  This book looks at how the townsfolk experienced the conflict from early displays of pageantry to their ultimate suffering in the unrelenting grip of plague.  The author, Dr Stuart Jennings, draws on a wide range of previously un-researched documents to produce a fascinating study of what it was really like to live in a town under siege.

Paperback

144 pages

illustrated (B/W)

isbn 978-0-902751-62-0