02.07 - ‘No Matter What Master We Serve’

Veterans of the Thirty Years War were invaluable in the early Wars
of the Three Kingdoms, and this episode looks at why. Why did so
many Scots sign up to fight on the continent? Gold? Glory? Escaping
a debt? Because they were arrested and forced to? All of the above.
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following publications particularly useful: Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The
Civil Wars MacKenzie, Kirsteen, The Solemn League and Covenant of
the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663 Miller,
James, 'The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe,
1550-1650', in Zürcher, Erik-Jan (ed.), Fighting for a Living: A
Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Murdoch, Steven and
Grosjean, Alexia, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Murdoch, Steven, Scotland and the
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648  For a full bibliography, see the
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