978 1 901677 49 2
(ISBN)

Second, revised edition,

January 2007.

A5

28 pages.

£3

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Illustrated with playing cards from a set produced in 1685 to commemorate the defeat of the Monmouth and Argyll Rebellions.The Great Rebellion of 1685 saw the last mass bloodshed on English soil; first at the battle of Sedgemoor and then at Assize courts all over the South West. Why did it all happen? And who was rebelling against whom? Geoff Sawers sifts through differing histories and contemporary sources to retell the story of the rebellion and place it within the wider context of British history.