The English Civil War Quotes

“It might seem odd to describe cookbooks as a product of political liberation, but Hannah Wolley’s works were to open a new way of learning to those not born to the trade. They were part of a democratization of knowledge which in turn may have had political impact. Monarchy makes sense in a world where younger servants learn from older servants in a strict hierarchy. Once print made it possible to learn outside that hierarchy, the existence of privileged knowledge and even privilege itself could be called into question.”
― Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: A People's History

“Bodley’s librarian Thomas Hearne responded gallantly that Wood himself was ‘always looked upon in Oxford as a most egregious, illiterate, dull blockhead, a conceited impudent coxcomb’. The”
― Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: A People's History

“If there had been no English Civil War, would there have been an American or a French Revolution? It may be that Charles could have redefined government in autocratic terms for the whole of Western civilization, almost indefinitely.”
― Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: A People's History