WHY DID A CIVIL WAR BREAK OUT IN ENGLAND IN 1642? The Civil War had many separate causes. If we are to believe Conrad Russell then religion was the most important aspect of the explosive nature of the war following 1640. Other historians such as John Morrill have pointed out that to look too closely at religion in high politics as almost a single factor of the war is a dangerous stance to take. Morrill espouses the …showed first 75 words of 2819 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2819 total…would never have become a reality. BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS: Barry Coward, The Stuart Age, (New York, 1980). F. D. Dow, Radicalism in the English Revolution, 1640-1660, (Oxford, 1987). Kevin Sharp, Politics and Ideas in Early Stuart England, (1989). ESSAYS: Essays by John Morrill, The Nature of the English Revolution, (U. S. A, 1993) ARTICLES: Conrad Russell, History, 'The British Problem and the English Civil War', (Vol. 72, 1987) John Kenyon, Journal of Modern History, 'Revisionism and Post Revisionism in Early Stuart England', (1992).