Thomas Pritchard
Published: 21 January 2019
The profound effects that the Thirty Years War had upon England and Scotland in the 1630s is largely absent from British scholarship, it occupies a peripheral position in the historiography of the British Isles.
University of Edinburgh
The profound effects that the Thirty Years War had upon England and Scotland in the 1630s is largely absent from British scholarship, it occupies a peripheral position in the historiography of the British Isles.
The medium of ‘news’ of this conflict arriving from the continent, fuelled a simmering paranoia resulting in diverse, multi-medial cultural manifestations of the English and Scottish public sphere(s). By examining the incoming harbingers of war and the consequently fearful English and Scottish reactions, the pamphlets, soldier’s testimonies, news sheets, plays, images, sermons and ballads, I propose to reconstruct a multitude of lost voices in the echo of a conflict perceived both as a bloody dynastic struggle and an apocalyptic unfolding, akin to a destructive force of nature.
First published: 21 January 2019