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Missing English Civil War Packs Continuing on with our mission to recover missing packs and models from our ranges, we have moved on to The English Civil War. 20 packs have now reappeared on our website pages, including lots of Highlanders!The pack numbers are:  2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 39, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70. Models sculpted by Michael and Alan Perry. Our English Civil War & Thirty Years War models can be used for either conflict: This guide tells you how. 'There were, in fact, three Civil Wars between 1642 and 1651. The first occurred between 1642 and...

The Viking Myth:  If you read popular histories of the Scandinavians it is easy to assume that one-day in 790AD a new phenomenon was unleashed upon Christendom in the form of a sea-borne raid by northern barbarians upon a settled shore. This, however, could not be further from the truth. The peoples of the far north of Europe had been raiding civilisations to the south for a thousand years, first continental Celts then Baltic Germans assaulted the British Isles, followed by the Saxons, Jutes, Angles and other motley adventurers. Recent research suggests that even the Picts may have originally sailed...

By John French Shop our English Civil War range here.  The Bishop's Wars 1639 & 1640 Eleven Years' Tyranny The years 1629-40 were the so called 'Eleven Years' Tyranny', when Charles used his Prerogative Powers to govern the country largely without the aid of Parliament. Various grievances on both sides led to Charles dissolving Parliament. He instead used a small council of advisors including William Laud (Archbishop of Canterbury) and Thomas Wentworth. This was known as the Conciliar System. Laud wanted to impose uniformity within the Church and persuaded Charles to make it compulsory for Scotland to use the English Prayer...