Civil
Insolencies tells the dramatic story of the battle
of Guisborough in North Yorkshire on 16 January 1643, when Parliamentary
soldiers defeated Royalist forces in order to secure the crossings over the
River Tees. Bob Beagrie attempts to ‘repopulate the vast wastelands of the
past’ with the leaders and the led, Roundheads and Royalists, soldiers and
civilians, historical and imagined, exploring ideas of authority and dissent,
free speech and faith, propaganda and social division, reaction and revolution. Civil Insolencies looks back on a World
Turn’d Upside Down from our own divided and uncertain times.