Events

Southam and Edgehill 1642

Saturday 3rd December 2016

Simon Marsh will talk about John Hampden’s introduction to war with his participation in the battles of Southam and Edgehill at the start of the Civil Wars.  Discover more about the little know engagement at Southam and John Hampden’s  dramatic intervention at the first major battle of the war at Edgehill.

Simon Marsh is the Battlefields Trust Research Coordinator and Mercia Region Chair.  He co-authored Battle for London (Amberley, 2010) about the Edgehill campaign and the royalist attack on London in 1642 and has written on the Civil War for the Journal of Army Historical Research and Pike and Shot Society.

Saturday 3rd December 2016 at 2:30pm at the Bucks County Musuem, Church Street, Aylesbury, HP20 2QP.

Tickets £7.50 or £25 for all four talks in the series are available from the Bucks County Museum at the following website: http://www.buckscountymuseum.org/museum/events/270/southam-and-edgehill-an-introduction-to-war/

For further information.

• Contact name : Simon Marsh
• Contact email : mercia@battlefieldstrust.com
• Contact phone : 07742-958888
• Also see : Bucks County Musuem booking page