The Cromwell Prize Competition

'What, are those two at it again!’ cried an astonished Yorkshire farmer on Marston Moor in July 1644 when told that a battle was about to take place there between the armies of Charles I, the English parliamentarians and the Scottish covenanters. It is a tale often repeated to portray the Civil War as a conflict that left the mass of people and the normal rhythms of economic and social life unaffected. How false that picture is has been dramatically revealed in recent years. That is why the Cromwell Association has chosen the economic and social impact of the English Civil War as the subject of its Cromwell Prize Competition in 2001.