1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,740 Hello and welcome to the news at when, when at the 1600s 2 00:00:08,740 --> 00:00:16,686 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 3 00:00:16,686 --> 00:00:19,606 With more details we'll send it over to Bob Hale 4 00:00:19,606 --> 00:00:21,071 with the Civil War report, Bob 5 00:00:21,071 --> 00:00:23,737 Thank you Sam, well its 1625 and I hope you're dressed 6 00:00:23,737 --> 00:00:25,926 smartly because here comes the King 7 00:00:25,926 --> 00:00:29,606 Yes its King Charles I, and right from day 1 he is stirring up trouble 8 00:00:29,606 --> 00:00:32,765 Mainly because he is suppose to be a Protestant like the Church of England 9 00:00:32,765 --> 00:00:38,737 But he keeps doing some very Catholicy things, like marrying a Catholic, praying like a Catholic, and wearing an I love Catholics T-shirt 10 00:00:38,737 --> 00:00:40,686 Except not the last one, and Charlies behavior 11 00:00:40,686 --> 00:00:44,764 annoys an awful lot of people especially in Parliament in London 12 00:00:44,764 --> 00:00:48,926 So Charlie tells them to take some time off, about 10 years in fact, leaving him in charge 13 00:00:48,926 --> 00:00:52,403 of the entire country which is jolly good fun, but not for long 14 00:00:52,403 --> 00:00:56,127 First the Scots sick of this bossy Catholic loving king start a war against him 15 00:00:56,127 --> 00:01:00,285 Then the Irish sick of English people stealing their land start another war against him 16 00:01:00,285 --> 00:01:04,604 and wars are very expensive, so Charles brings back Parliament just to 17 00:01:04,604 --> 00:01:08,524 ask them for some money, and they said no, because you tried to get rid of us 18 00:01:08,524 --> 00:01:12,690 remember? Instead they just give him a big long list of all the things they don't like about him 19 00:01:12,690 --> 00:01:16,286 Well, talk about trouble, over the next 2 years the country divides in 2 20 00:01:16,286 --> 00:01:20,125 With some people siding with Charlie, thats the Cavaliers, and others siding with Parliament 21 00:01:20,125 --> 00:01:24,525 Thats the roundheads, until in 1642 here in Nottingham Civil War 22 00:01:24,525 --> 00:01:28,690 Is declared and what a war it is, in fact if we look at the fight-o-meter 23 00:01:28,690 --> 00:01:31,845 We can see that the first major battle at Edgehill, victory goes to... 24 00:01:31,845 --> 00:01:36,126 No one at all, how very dull, its a dead heat, but in round 2 here in London 25 00:01:36,126 --> 00:01:39,685 the winner is, oh a great result for the Roundheads, followed by... 26 00:01:39,685 --> 00:01:42,925 a real killing for the Cavaliers in the west country 27 00:01:42,925 --> 00:01:47,236 and then another win for the King up north taking Bolten, Preston, Wiggen and Liverpool, where my cousin Ed 28 00:01:47,236 --> 00:01:51,923 runs a dry cleaners just up the high street, half price shirts on wednesdays, worth remembering 29 00:01:51,923 --> 00:01:55,767 But the Kings luck can't last, its complete murder at Marston Moor 30 00:01:55,767 --> 00:01:59,154 By a knockout at Newbury, and annihilation at Naseby,in fact he's doing so 31 00:01:59,154 --> 00:02:03,526 badly he's broken our thingy, but Charlie has an idea he'll 32 00:02:03,526 --> 00:02:07,965 make a truce with the Scots if they help him fight the Roundheads, which is absolutely brilliant 33 00:02:07,965 --> 00:02:11,569 except it doesn't work at all and they just hand him over to Parliament, woops 34 00:02:11,569 --> 00:02:15,738 So, the Roundheads win and the Cavaliers lose, and that is the end 35 00:02:15,738 --> 00:02:19,570 of that, but not for long, it soon becomes clear that the Roundhead 36 00:02:19,570 --> 00:02:25,153 leader Oliver Cromwell is about as much fun as stingy ? underpants, so the Scots finally join an alliance with Charlie to overthrow 37 00:02:25,153 --> 00:02:29,605 Cromwell, yes, its Civil War, part 2!!! With the Scots and the Cavaliers 38 00:02:29,605 --> 00:02:36,444 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 39 00:02:36,444 --> 00:02:41,446 Goodbye Charlie's head, and goodbye kings and queens all together, yes, Cromwell is now in charge 40 00:02:41,446 --> 00:02:45,487 of the country with the war ing finally over Oli can stop being mean to the Cavaliers 41 00:02:45,487 --> 00:02:53,153 and start being mean to the rest of us, he turns Britain into a Puritan state, which means banning anything fun including sport, theatre 42 00:02:53,153 --> 00:02:59,071 and Christmas, and then he runs out of stuff to ban, gets bored, and dies, so his son 43 00:02:59,071 --> 00:03:01,205 Richard takes over but he's about as much use as a jelly pick axe, and before long the 44 00:03:01,205 --> 00:03:05,069 people of Britain just want the petty Puritans out, and the crazy Kings back 45 00:03:05,069 --> 00:03:09,069 Yes, Prince Charles is welcome with open arms, he becomes King Charles II 46 00:03:09,069 --> 00:03:13,071 and the monarchy is restored! Its the Restoration which gives us all sorts 47 00:03:13,071 --> 00:03:16,925 of fun things including Restoration comedies, Restoration fashion, and Restoration 48 00:03:16,925 --> 00:03:20,605 furniture, including this delightful mahogany bureau, now do I hear $750 lbs 49 00:03:20,605 --> 00:03:23,445 (auctioneer voice) 50 00:03:23,445 --> 00:03:25,903 (auctioneer voice) 51 00:03:25,903 --> 00:03:35,684 (auctioneer voice) 52 00:03:35,684 --> 00:03:41,735 and back to you Sam.