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How could anyone possibly want a Roundhead ancestor?

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

The late Michael Foot used to say that the first thing he needed to know about a new acquaintance was, on which side he or she would like their forebears to have fought in the English Civil War. He himself, of course, was firmly for Parliament. But having read Leanda de Lisle’s book, it is hard to imagine how anyone could possibly want to have Roundhead ancestors.

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