Military Encounters during the Civil Wars
Civil War Petitions contains the details of hundreds of military events in which soldiers were wounded or killed. These range from the famous clashes at Marston Moor and Naseby to those that remain unmentioned in printed Civil War histories, such as the skirmish at Snaygill near Skipton.
Use the map to browse petitions that mention military events by location. You can use the facets to filter these events by battles, sieges, assaults and other encounters.
The Case for Universal Access and Design: The Example of the Civil War Petitions Project
‘The utter ruin of this poor town’: Quartering Soldiers in Haverfordwest during the Second Civil War.
The Wounded of Naseby
‘Killing a King’: The Sack of Leicester and the Trial of Charles I
‘Members of one another’s miseries’: care in the community during and after the Civil Wars
'A turbulent Crosgrained [blank]': Reputation and Defamation in Civil War Petitions
New Wars on Old Battlefields: Disputes in Later Seventeenth-Century Brigstock, Northamptonshire
‘Civil War, Memory and Authority’: A Conference Blogpost
The Parents of Wounded and Fallen Soldiers: Two Case Studies from Warwickshire
