Civil Insolencies

Civil Insolencies tells the dramatic story of the battle of Guisborough in North Yorkshire on 16 January 1643, when Parliamentary soldiers defeated Royalist forces in order to secure the crossings over the River Tees. Bob Beagrie attempts to ‘repopulate the vast wastelands of the past’ with the leaders and the led, Roundheads and Royalists, soldiers and civilians, historical and imagined, exploring ideas of authority and dissent, free speech and faith, propaganda and social division, reaction and revolution. Civil Insolencies looks back on a World Turn’d Upside Down from our own divided and uncertain times.