Thursday, December 18, 2014

Furgol

Well his name might sound like something the cat coughed up, but Edward Furgols work has proved to be a fantastic resource for this project.

"The Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies; 1639-1651", published by John Donald (ISBN 0 85976 194 0) was built out from Furgols Ph.D thesis at the University of Edinburgh.

I can't state enough how useful this book is.  All the regiments would have been just a never-ending roll of grey figures without this.  His accounts gave the blog some substance, and also a bit of color!

From lumps of lead to hard drinking, hard shagging, hard fighting soldiers!

I've heard he took some criticism from Stuart Reid but then he gets plenty to!

3 comments:

Ian said...

Interesting, mind you Mr Reid seems to have had so much published now. I remember the old days via ECW N&Q's

Ian

Scott Dallimore said...

Sounds good! At 45 pound it had better be good!

Rank Bajin said...

Scott - get it second hand or from the library :-)
It is a lot of money.
Roy