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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 5737675, member: 14873&quot;]A belated confession: I originated this topic because I had just finished reading ………</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1242975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>……… for the third time. I love this diary - as I mentioned previously, I grew up in the midst of what had been the English Civil war northern theater of operations and in my youth was taught about the Civil War, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Cavaliers &amp; Round Heads, Lord Manchester &amp; Fairfax, the battle of Preston, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I read Pepys’ diary. I have always been fascinated by his descriptions of life in London in those times: particularly during the outbreak of Bubonic Plague (1665) and the Great fire of London (1666) - besides, any man who stops at a pub each morning on his walk to work and consumes a breakfast consisting of plain hard bread, sharp cheddar cheese and a pint of bitter beer is my kind of guy!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But my main interest was, and always has been, the Romano-Britannic</p><p>History of the area in which I lived - especially the Roman Imperial coinage. I have devoted a great amount of time and effort in researching and writing about those subjects - especially during my home quarantine of this past pandemic year.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got jaded by reading all that Romano-Britannic and Harold Mattingly writing (although I do love it) and took to reading about and researching the (almost) equally exciting history of the English Civil War that I know relatively little about as a relief.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus this thread. I want to pick the brains and harvest the collective knowledge of the members of this community who are devotees of the English Civil War (and see some of the great coins in the collections of CTers).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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