Friday 28 January 2011

The English Civil War: an interesting video about the battle of Nantwich

Amazingly enough, one of the latest multimedia clips on the Internet version of The Guardian newspaper is about the English Civil War -as we've just seen a text about it and we're focusing on history vocabulary, I thought you may find it interesting.
The clip is a bit difficult but if you read this Wikipedia entry, everything will be a bit easier. As you can read there, Nantwich is a town in Chesire (in the North West of England). It was occupied by Parliamentary forces and sieged for 6 weeks. After a famous battle, the siege was raised, which  meant a turning point for the war.
There's an annual re-ennactment of this battle in the town -it takes place on January 25th and the documentary focuses on this re-ennactment.
In the documentary, there's a historian, who is not too difficult to understand. However, some of the local people who appear in the clip have a broader Northern accent and are more difficult to understand.
Anyway, if you want to watch it, here is the link.

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