Stories

[Brendan Dooley] One year later the First Civil War would begin in England.  But already in 1641 simmering tension led to violent conflict between the Irish subjects of the Three Kingdoms, and their authorities, whoever these were conceived to be.  Leaders of the 1641 rebellion…

[by Brendan Dooley] Events after the recapture of the king at the end of 1647 precipitated rapidly.  Amerigo Salvetti summed up the state of play since then in a long newsletter (we are now in December the following year). He starts with the results…

[By Brendan Dooley] In the words of the Florentine resident, Amerigo Salvetti:  “It is confirmed that on the 6th of this month this new tribunal of Westminster pronounced the death sentence against their king, and on the 9th had this carried out by the ordinary…

[Edited by Davide Limatola] «Here this week, some gentlemen have been imprisoned in the Tower of London, without the real cause being known, despite it usually being public, to be found that they had conspired against the person of the Lord Protector» …

[Edited by Enrico De Prisco] In mid-April of 1655, the Savoyard militias, backed by a regiment of Irish Catholic soldiers serving in the French army, started the military operation against the Waldenses community of Val Pellice, in the mountains surrounding Turin in Piedmont. This tragic…

Listen to a podcast by Dr. Elisabetta Cecconi (University of Florence) concerning the propaganda surrounding Cromwell's West Indies expedition! Find out how news was managed by the Protectorate, especially in regard to the unsuccessful attempts to break Spanish colonial control at Hispaniola and Jamaica!…