1651
A Pivotal Moment
in British History
“When your wives and children shall ask you where you have been, and what news: say you have been at Worcester, where England’s sorrows began and where they are happily ended” – Hugh Peter/s – Preacher who supported the Parliamentarians.
A battle that changed
everything
The English Civil Wars killed a higher proportion of the British population than any other war in British history. One in ten of the male population died, more than three times the proportion who died in World War I, and five times the proportion than in World War II.
Annual Review
Hear from
Expert speakers
We are proud to welcome many distinguished speakers to the Battle of Worcester Society, talking on various elements of the battle and surrounding interests.
Our upcoming
Events
War, Trauma and the Quakers in Worcestershire
£3.00 – £7.00
This talk explores early Quakerism in Worcestershire from the origins of the original community in the mid-seventeenth century. Dr Canela is an early modern social
Oliver Cromwell Commander in Chief
£3.00 – £7.00
The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament. In 1647,
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