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Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds, medicine, hospitals, trauma, military welfare, widowhood, desertion, imprisonment and charity. The percentage population loss in these conflicts was far higher than that of the two World Wars, which renders the Civil Wars arguably the most unsettling experience the British people have ever undergone. The volume explores its themes from new angles, demonstrating how military history can broaden its perspective and reach out to new audiences.
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