What's In A Name?
Having been asked the tricksy question, What is it: The English Civil War, The British Civil Wars or the Wars of the Three Kingdoms? Pictures from Holly Holy Day 2020, Nantwich's annual celebration of the battle I will attempt to answer it... but first, some definitions. British , means belonging to the archipelago known as the British Isles, a geographical term (Great Britain is the name of the largest island in the archipelago). Britain is not the name of a country, it is the name of an island on which there are two countries and a principality. The term is, understandably, unpopular in Eire. Three Kingdoms - Charles was concurrently king of England, Scotland and Ireland. The kingdoms were separate countries, the Act of Union creating the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland hadn't happened yet. But what about Wales? (long story made short): Wales had been subsumed by England in the thirteenth century and politically when the word England was used, it included Wale...
