Episode 21 - John Hampden

CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - En podkast av Mark Turnbull - Lørdager

Send us a textIan Beckett, a Vice-Chair of the John Hampden Society joins me to talk about this parliamentarian military and political leader. Known as for his civil war regiment of green coats, and opposition to Ship Money tax, Hampden has become an obscure and clouded figure through the centuries.▪️What myths have grown up about John Hampden?▪️Why did his 19th century biography exhume his body?▪️Had he survived, could he have replaced the Earl of Essex as Parliament's Lord General, or John ...

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