Age of Milton

Table of contents

• Using This Guide
• Introduction
• Key Dates
• Origins
• Prelude
• The Civil War, 1642-6
• The Search for Settlement
• Political Radicalism - Levellers and Diggers
• Background
• Key Dates
• Commentary
• The Commonwealth - the "Purged" / "Rump" Parliament 1649-53
• The Protectorate, 1653-60
• Further Reading, 1640-60

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