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  The impact of the press in the English Civil War Quite by chance last week, I came across some very brief comments by Ann Hughes (Keele) on the impact of the radical press on the Long Parliament’s cause in the early stages of the English Civil War. She had been asked by The Times Higher Education Supplement to specify the best books of the season in December, 2018 and had responded by identifying David Como’s work, Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War (Oxford University Press) as the one she had most recently enjoyed. Como’s research had, she observed, revealed the centrality of a lively press to radical Parliamentarianism and how crucial radical militancy was to Parliament’s eventual victory. It did, indeed, offer some basis for optimism about democratic engagement in our own times. [1] This was a very succinct commentary on a much longer work and it would be unfair to make too much of it. Even so, it did and does raise some interesting questions. One obvious one a

 Youtube has an interview with Clive Holmes on this subject which can be viewed  here  .

  Clive Holmes: A Personal Appreciation by former student and colleague Grant Tapsell   No one ever sat in a chair more vigorously than Clive. I can see him now, poised on the edge of his seat whilst teaching, leaning forward, arm outstretched, ready at any moment to leap up and fetch a book down from the shelves. The air crackled with energy. It also tended to be full of the sound of laughter, whether about the intellectual blunders of leading figures in the field, student scandals, or recent events in college. Clive was the main reason I applied to LMH, prompted by a wise schoolteacher, and I always offered up thanks for the brilliant advice - even if Clive christened me 'Eeyore' within about five minutes of my arrival. It is immensely hard to accept that such a vital and vibrant figure is no longer here. The reality is that we were lucky to have him for so long: a cancer diagnosis in 2001 led to debilitating treatment and substantial surgery. He lived his life thereafter wit