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Philip Skippon was the third-most senior general in parliament’s New Model Army during the British Civil Wars. A veteran of European Protestant armies during the period of the Thirty Years’ War and long-serving commander of the London Trained Bands, no other high-ranking parliamentarian enjoyed such a long military career as Skippon. He was an author of religious books, an MP and a senior political figure in the republican and Cromwellian regimes. This is the first book to examine Skippon’s career, which is used to shed new light on historical debates surrounding the Civil Wars and understand how military events of this period impacted upon broader political, social and cultural themes.

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“What a joy to read a book that vividly brings the civil wars to life, and which does so with such scholarly authority and balanced judgement. Ismini Pells has produced an exemplary study here of Philip Skippon, a prominent, senior general in the New Model Army. Yet this book does much more than simply rescue Skippon from the historical shadow of Cromwell or Fairfax or provide the attention that his remarkable military and political career and central role in the civil wars ‘deserves’; Pells provides a lesson in how to write serious historical biography.” Alan James, King’s College London for the International Journal of Military History and Historiography

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Ismini Pells obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge. Following this, she was a research associate at the University of Exeter, researching Civil War medical practitioners. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leicester, working on a project researching military welfare during the Civil Wars.

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