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In November 1643 eight hundred Royalist cavalry and foot soldiers led by Sir
Francis Mackworth attempted to seize the small West Riding town of Heptonstall from the occupying Parliamentary forces. Although they were driven back after a bloody night battle, several weeks later the Royalists returned in greater numbers, sacking the town, burning the houses and taking the livestock. The wool trade was destroyed for a generation. Plague followed.A few years ago, Michael Crowley turned the story of this small, bloody battle in the English Civil War into a community play. The Battle of Heptonstall takes some of the characters from the play – real and imagined – and lets them tell their own version of events. It is an examination of ideology, class and Englishness, from the Putney Debates to Brexit, a book about propaganda and division, authority and dissent, reaction and resistance, then and now.
Author Biography
Michael Crowley worked for many years as writer in residence at HM YOI Lancaster Farms. He has written for stage and radio and for youth theatre. His books include The Man They Couldn’t Hang, Behind the Lines, The Stony Ground, Nowhere to Run, Baghlan Boy and two poetry collections, Close to Home and First Fleet (also published by Smokestack).
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