David J. Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of NottinghamAndrew Hopper is Professor of English Local History at the University of Leicester

• IntroductionDavid J. Appleby and Andrew HopperPart I: Mortality1 Battlefields, burials and the English Civil WarsIan Atherton2 Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: military discipline or civic duty? The surviving evidence for Newark upon Trent, 1642–46Stuart B. JenningsPart II: Medical care3 A new kind of surgery for a new kind of war: gunshot wounds and their treatment in the British Civil WarsStephen M. Rutherford4 ‘Stout Skippon hath a wound’: the medical treatment of Parliament’s infantry commander following the battle of NasebyIsmini Pells5 ‘Dead hogges, dogges, cats and well flayed carryon horses’: royalist hospital provision during the First Civil WarEric Gruber von Arni6 Gerard’s Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil WarRichard JonesPart III: The hidden human costs7 The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of parliamentary authority, 1642–51David J. Appleby8 ‘The deep staines these Wars will leave behind’: psychological wounds and curative methods in the English Civil WarsErin Peters9 The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642–79Hannah Worthen10 ‘To condole with me on the Commonwealth’s loss’: the widows and orphans of Parliament’s military commandersAndrew Hopper11 ‘So necessarie and charitable a worke’: welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners of war in England, 1650–55Chris R. LangleyConclusionDavid J. Appleby and Andrew HopperIndex