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7. William Laud and Sir Thomas Wentworth (soon to become the Earl of Strafford). (Engraving, William Faithorne, after Sir Anthony Van Dyke, early 1640s)

8. The House of Commons in the Short Parliament. (Engraving, English school, seventeenth century)

9. The attack on Lambeth Palace, May 1640. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

10. English soldiers purging churches on their way north in 1640. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

11. Panoramic view of London in 1647. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar)

12. New Palace Yard and Westminster Hall in 1647. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar)

13. The execution of the Earl of Strafford in 1641. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1641)

14. Cheapside Cross, a focal point of civic life. (Engraving, anon., 1809: copy of earlier engravings depicting the visit of Marie de Medici in 1638)

15. The dangers of sectarian excess: the Adamites. (Woodcut, anon., 1641)

16. The dressing from a plague sore delivered to John Pym on the floor of the House of Commons. (Engraving, anon., 1642)

17. Wildly exaggerated reports of atrocities against Protestants in Ireland. (Engraving, anon., 1647)

18 and 19. John Pym portrayed in the forefront of the battle against Popish conspiracies. (Woodcuts, anon., 1641)

20. The triumphant return of Parliament men following the King’s departure from London in January 1642. (Engraving, anon., 1642)

21. The ‘paper war’ in the summer of 1642: fundamental constitutional issues argued out before a print audience. (Title page, anon., 1642)

22. A ‘gunpowder plot’ in Derbyshire in 1641, which was probably fictitious, despite the assurances on the title page. (Title page, anon., 1641)

23. The battle for the provinces in 1642: declarations and resolutions of local bodies published for the benefit of a national audience. (Title page, anon., 1642)

24. Royalist propaganda about the actions of the ‘Colchester plunderers’ and other parliamentarian barbarities: a later compendium of Bruno Ryves’s Mercurius Rusticus. (Engravings, anon., 1685)

25. The battle of Edgehill, October 1642. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

26. The destruction of Cheapside Cross, May 1643. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

27. Henrietta Maria charged with treason and royal houses purged of popery, May 1643. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

28. The burning of the Book of Sports at the site of Cheapside Cross, May 1643. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

29. The revelation of the Waller plot, June 1643. (Engraving, anon., 1643)

30. The execution of the plotters, June 1643. (Engraving, anon., 1643)

31. The Apologeticall Narration, which sparked fierce controversy in the parliamentary alliance. (Title page, 1644)

32. John Milton’s Areopagitica argued against pre-publication censorship. (Title page, 1644)

33. The executions of William Laud, Sir John Hotham and his son, and Sir Alexander Carew in January 1645. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

34. Political astrology: George Wharton’s notoriously inaccurate military predictions in May 1645. (Title page, 1645)

35. The battle of Naseby. (Engraving, anon., 1647)

36. One of the twenty-eight ‘works’ around London’s civil war fortifications. (Engraving, anon., 1643)

37. The Queen’s Sconce, part of the civil war defences of Newark. (Aerial photograph, 1962)

38. Times Whirligig, by a former clubman leader, satirizing Somerset’s new low-born governors. (Title page, 1647)

39. Matthew Hopkins ‘watching’ two suspects during the witch hunt in 1645. (Woodcut, anon., 1647)

40. Thomas Edwards’s Gangraena. (Title page, 1646)

41 and 42. Images of political monstrosity in post-war England. (Woodcuts, anon., 1647)

43. Sir Thomas Fairfax presiding over the Council of the Army in 1647. (Woodcut, anon., 1647)

44. Charles I in captivity at Carisbrooke Castle. (Woodcut, anon., 1648)

45 and 46. Plans for a new Whitehall Palace approved by Charles during his captivity at Carisbrooke Castle. (Architectural drawings, John Webb)

47. The Scottish invasion, 1648. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

48. The siege of Colchester, 1648. (Engraving, anon., 1648?)

49. The