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Hello and welcome to the news at when, when at the 1600s

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when the people of Britain went to war with each other, to decide if they wanted the country to be ruled by a King, or by Parliament

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With more details we'll send it over to Bob Hale

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with the Civil War report, Bob

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Thank you Sam, well its 1625 and I hope you're dressed

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smartly because here comes the King

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Yes its King Charles I, and right from day 1 he is stirring up trouble

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Mainly because he is suppose to be a Protestant like the Church of England

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But he keeps doing some very Catholicy things, like marrying a Catholic, praying like a Catholic, and wearing an I love Catholics T-shirt

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Except not the last one, and Charlies behavior

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annoys an awful lot of people especially in Parliament in London

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So Charlie tells them to take some time off, about 10 years in fact, leaving him in charge

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of the entire country which is jolly good fun, but not for long

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First the Scots sick of this bossy Catholic loving king start a war against him

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Then the Irish sick of English people stealing their land start another war against him

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and wars are very expensive, so Charles brings back Parliament just to

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ask them for some money, and they said no, because you tried to get rid of us

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remember? Instead they just give him a big long list of all the things they don't like about him

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Well, talk about trouble, over the next 2 years the country divides in 2

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With some people siding with Charlie, thats the Cavaliers, and others siding with Parliament

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Thats the roundheads, until in 1642 here in Nottingham Civil War

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Is declared and what a war it is, in fact if we look at the fight-o-meter

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We can see that the first major battle at Edgehill, victory goes to...

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No one at all, how very dull, its a dead heat, but in round 2 here in London

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the winner is, oh a great result for the Roundheads, followed by...

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a real killing for the Cavaliers in the west country

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and then another win for the King up north taking Bolten, Preston, Wiggen and Liverpool, where my cousin Ed

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runs a dry cleaners just up the high street, half price shirts on wednesdays, worth remembering

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But the Kings luck can't last, its complete murder at Marston Moor

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By a knockout at Newbury, and annihilation at Naseby,in fact he's doing so

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badly he's broken our thingy, but Charlie has an idea he'll

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make a truce with the Scots if they help him fight the Roundheads, which is absolutely brilliant

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except it doesn't work at all and they just hand him over to Parliament, woops

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So, the Roundheads win and the Cavaliers lose, and that is the end

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of that, but not for long, it soon becomes clear that the Roundhead

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leader Oliver Cromwell is about as much fun as stingy ? underpants, so the Scots finally join an alliance with Charlie to overthrow

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Cromwell, yes, its Civil War, part 2!!! With the Scots and the Cavaliers

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fighting on the same side there is no way they could lose, or so we thought, yes, Cromwell completely destroys both of them and its goodbye Civil War

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Goodbye Charlie's head, and goodbye kings and queens all together, yes, Cromwell is now in charge

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of the country with the war ing finally over Oli can stop being mean to the Cavaliers

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and start being mean to the rest of us, he turns Britain into a Puritan state, which means banning anything fun including sport, theatre

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and Christmas, and then he runs out of stuff to ban, gets bored, and dies, so his son

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Richard takes over but he's about as much use as a jelly pick axe, and before long the

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people of Britain just want the petty Puritans out, and the crazy Kings back

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Yes, Prince Charles is welcome with open arms, he becomes King Charles II

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and the monarchy is restored! Its the Restoration which gives us all sorts

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of fun things including Restoration comedies, Restoration fashion, and Restoration

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furniture, including this delightful mahogany bureau, now do I hear $750 lbs

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(auctioneer voice)

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(auctioneer voice)

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(auctioneer voice)

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and back to you Sam.