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Tristram Hunt - The English Civil War at First Hand
06 November 2011
4pm
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On Sale Thursday 22nd September Tristram Hunt MP is a British politician, historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist and current Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. Author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels Tristram discusses his book The English Civil War at First Hand, a history of the English Civil War from first-hand accounts. Employing not only the most famous documents, diaries and court cases of the period, he has referenced many lesser-known sources to present a fascinating new angle on the years between 1637 and 1652.