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Welcome to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. ScopeeditThis task force covers the period up to the start of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (including, for example, the Personal Rule of King Charles I), the Wars themselves, the Interregnum, and the first few years of the Restoration. The task force also covers the biographies of anyone involved in the Wars and Interregnum, and articles on the history of those parts of the British Empire affected by the Wars and the foreign adventures of the English Commonwealth and Protectorate governments. It can be considered to be a subgroup of the Early Modern warfare task force, whose scope includes every such topic. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |
Participants
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- AnAbsolutelyOriginalUsername42 (talk · contribs) - (Charles I, Divine Right of Kings and how it relates to Civil War, propaganda & political arguments throughout three kingdoms)
- Inchiquin (talk · contribs) (Ireland, the British in Ireland. Planning on adding a section to the Second English Civil War article to link it more to Ireland. Also still hope to add more articles covering the largely forgotten battles fought in Ireland in this period, other related topics...)
- Jdorney (talk · contribs) (Interested in maintaining and improving the Irish articles. And to a lesser extent the English and Scottish ones.)
- PBS (talk · contribs) (Predominantly the English Civil War and English Interregnum)
- Sabrebd (talk · contribs) Will probably stick mainly to Scotland, but pretty much interested in all wars in all kingdoms.
- Harrias (talk · contribs): Mostly the battles and personnel relating to the south-west of England, but wider if the fancy takes me.
- TheBestEditorInEngland (talk · contribs): Mostly the military engagements of the English Civil war but I may also dabble in anything related to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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Article statistics
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A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below:
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Open tasks
edit- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (353) • ...to coverage and accuracy (239) • ...to structure (82) • ...to grammar (9) • ...to supporting materials (159)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- Oliver Cromwell (referencing) • Great Siege of Scarborough Castle (article name and infobox) • Battle of Weymouth (merge infoxboxes or make two separate articles?) • Siege of High Ercall Hall (infobox) • Battle of Dunaverty (referencing and infobox)
- Requested articles
- Second Siege of Exeter • Siege of Raglan Castle • Battle of Melton Mowbray • Battle of Sutton Field • Battle of Belgrave Bridge • Battle of Market Harborough • Battle of Cotes Bridge • Siege of Banbury Castle • Battle of Tackley • Battle of Enslow Bridge • Battle of Gosford Bridge • Battle of Brill • Siege of Boarstall House • Battle of Culham Bridge • Battle of Islip • Battle of Islip Bridge • Siege of Greenland House • Siege of Saltash • Siege of Grafton House • Siege of Bishop's Waltham • Battle of Aldermaston • Battle of Padworth Gulley • Siege of Beaumaris • Siege of Winchester • Capture of Chichester • Battle of Gosford Bridge • Siege of Bolingbroke Castle • Battle of Grantham • Battle of Ancaster Heath • Battle of Colby Moor • Sieges of Newark • Battle of Coleford • Battle of Lancaut • Battle of Highnam • Battle of Ledbury • First Battle of Modbury • Second Battle of Modbury • Battle of Chagford • Battle of Beacon Hill • Sieges of Sherborne Castle • Storming of Preston • Battle of Anacaster Heath • Battle of Wareham • Battle of Ashbourne • Capture of Liverpool • Battle of Ashby de la Zouch • Battle of Abingdon • Siege of Corfe Castle • Siege of Dunster Castle • Siege of Ludlow • Siege of Hopton Castle • Siege/Capture/Sack of Apley Castle • Battle of Longford • Sieges of Longford/Longford Hall • Battle of Newbridge (Currently Redirect) • Siege of Caus Castle • Siege of Leicester (Currently redirect) • Sieges of Brampton Bryan • Battle of Greatham Bridge • Siege of Mountfitchet Castle • Battle of Upham • Battle of South Harting • Siege of Crowland (Currently redirect) • Siege of Donnington Castle
- Expansion needed
- Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss • Alexander Hamilton (sailor) • Battle of Aylesbury • Battle of Boldon Hill • Battle of Dalnaspidal • Battle of Glenmaquin • Battle of Heptonstall • Battle of New Ross (1643) • Battle of Olney Bridge • Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss • Battle of Tullich • Battle of Warrington Bridge (1651) • Blair Worden • Block House (Melcombe) • Cotton Fort • Humphrey Baggerley • Lochend Castle, Campbeltown • Second Battle of Middlewich • Siege of Carlisle (1645) • Siege of High Ercall Hall • Siege of Inverness (1649) • Siege of Inverness (1650) • Siege of Inverness (1689) • Siege of Reading
- Images needed
- Anthony Hungerford (Roundhead) • Battle of Aberdeen (1646) • Battle of Seacroft Moor • Interregnum (England) • Manus O'Cahan's Regiment • Portadown massacre • Siege of Newcastle
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- Manus O'Cahan's Regiment • Timeline of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- Translation needed
- Add an article here!
- Tagging needed
- Category:Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Article alerts
editArticles to be merged
- 20 Feb 2024 – Trained band (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Trainband by Lieutcoluseng (t · c); see discussion
Resources
edit- Atkinson, Charles Francis (1911), Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 12 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 403–421 , in
- Bennett, Martyn (2016). Historical Dictionary of the British and Irish Civil Wars 1637–1660. London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-442262-64-5. (limited number of pages available on Google books)
- Carlton, Charles (1994) [1992]. Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–1651. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10391-6..
- Gaunt, Peter (1997). The British Wars 1637–1651. UK: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12966-4.
- Gentles, Ian (2007). "The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638–1652". In Scott, H. M.; Collins, B. W. (eds.). Modern Wars in Perspective. Harlow, UK: Pearson Longman.
- Godwin, George Nelson (1904). The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House. Southampton;London: Southampton, H.M. Gilbert and Son;London, J. and E. Bumpus. ISBN 9780344086410.
- Harris, Tim (2014). Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642. OUP. ISBN 978-0199209002.
- Hopper, Andrew (2012). Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing Sides During the English Civil Wars. OUP. ISBN 978-0199575855.
- Howard, Maurice (1996). Leslie, Kim; Short, Brian (eds.). An Historical Atlas of Sussex. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-86077-112-2. (only certain parts of the book are on the civil war but do include good notes and illustrations/maps for sussex in the civil war)
- Hutton, Ronald (2003). The Royalist War Effort 1642-1646. Routledge. ISBN 9780415305402.
- Jane, Lionel Cecil (1905). The Coming of Parliament; England from 1350 to 1660. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons etc. pp. 376–377.
- Manganiello, Stephen C. (2004). The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639–1660. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5100-8. (limited number of pages available on Google books)
- Newman, P.R. (1998) [1985]. Atlas of the English Civil War. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19609-4. (limited number of pages available on Google books)
- Purkiss, Diane (2006). The English Civil War: A People's History. Harper Press. ISBN 978-0007150618.
- Royle, Trevor (2004). Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms. UK: Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-86125-1.
- Thomas-Stanford, Charles (1910). Sussex in the great Civil War and the interregnum, 1642-1660. London: London, Chiswick Press. ISBN 9781333679750.
- Venning, Timothy (2015). An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1-4738-2782-0. (limited number of pages available on Google books)
- Wedgwood, CV (1958). The King's War, 1641-1647 (2001 ed.). Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0141390727.