The speaker reminisces about his views of the English Revolution when he was a student and how it seemed quite clear which side he was on – ‘the aristocrats, not the puritans’. Later he realised there was more to it than that and there were several ways of interpreting the Revolution: as a struggle between the king and parliament, as a class war or as an unpredictable situation without clear sides.
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The speaker reminisces about his views of the English Revolution when he was a student and how it seemed quite clear which side he was on – ‘the aristocrats, not the puritans’. Later he realised there was more to it than that and there were several ways of interpreting the Revolution: as a struggle between the king and parliament, as a class war or as an unpredictable situation without clear sides.