Friends in Youth

Minoo Dinshaw

£30.00

Two old friends end up on opposite sides of the English Civil War, in this dazzling history from the acclaimed author of Outlandish Knight.

Hardback

Biography & Memoir > British History > History > Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9780241312827

Published January 2025 by Penguin Books, Limited

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At the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early 17th century London, many pivotal friendships were forged: few closer than that of Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde.

Both young men were lively characters, industrious, well-connected, principled and optimistic.

They dreamed of reforming the government of Charles I, a young court with age-old problems, by restoring the traditional harmony of Crown and Parliament.

This is the story of how their hopes climbed, overreached, and fell into an abyss of relentless civil war.

This highly original, vivid and engaging book recreates the atmosphere, drama, players and ideas of what is arguably England’s (and Britain’s) most crucial and traumatic formative period.

Through the stories of his two protagonists, Minoo Dinshaw shows how subtle religious and political differences, careful personal judgments, and mere happenstance combined to place these two friends, most reluctantly, on opposite sides in the English Civil Wars.

They would both survive, unlike many thousands of others, into old age; both would become influential historians, shaping how we still understand the conflicts of their age.

But their friendship, like the once hopeful country in which it had first flourished, would be forever changed: permanently marred by what both men believed to be senseless and unnecessary civil strife.

An outstanding dual biography…Dinshaw’s book is profoundly entertaining, startling in its depth, and a necessary cautionary tale about the human cost of political division Daniel Brookes, The Telegraph

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 24 × 16 × 3 cm