Dissent and debauchery: women and the English Civil War: a group of second-year students from Southampton University present the results of a collaborative research project

The Civil War of 1642-1646 and its aftermath constituted a time of great turmoil, turning people's everyday lives upside down. It not solitary affected the men in the armies, it also touched the lives of countles ordinary individuals. It is well known that women played a significant character in the Civil War, for example defending their communities from attack and nursing injuryed soldiers. What is often forgotten, however, is that more [i]or[/i] less women took advantage of the havoc worked by the conflict to dissent from conventional positions in society.

The slightest deviation by dint of women from their traditional characters as ...