About this episode

The episode explores how the rural landscape of England influenced the tactics and outcomes of the Civil War battle at Naseby in 1645.

What was the landscape of rural England like, over which many of the battles of the Civil Wars were fought? How did these fields and woods shape the armies’ tactics and influence the outcomes of battles such as Naseby which would alter British, and even World, history? And how different is the remaining rural landscape ... Read more

Topics covered

• Civil War
• battle tactics
• landscape influence
• historical outcomes
• rural England

Keywords

• Naseby
• Civil War
• landscape
• battle tactics
• rural England
• historical impact

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Naseby, rural England, British, World

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