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John Fowke is the Most Interesting Man In English Civil War London (14 min.)

Merchant adventures and military revolutions
Oct 26, 2023
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This is a rough-cut video version of the presentation I am making today at the Ohio Valley History Conference. John Fowke is an understudied character because historians have missed his role in the military revolution that took place in London.

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East India Company v John Fowke And The Origins Of The English Civil War

Matt Osborne
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January 2, 2023
East India Company v John Fowke And The Origins Of The English Civil War

Previous posts about John Fowke, all free and shareable: This is the first published work based on original research for my thesis, the first draft of which is complete at nearly 50,000 words. It is based on one chapter of the thesis and was only available to paid subscribers. It is now unlocked.

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John Fowke Studies
Everything I produce related to London merchant adventurer and military entrepreneur John Fowke. My scholarship has centered on his role in the outbreak of the English Civil War, the parliamentary victory, and the birth of mass politics. Fowke and his Puritan partners shaped the nascent British gunpowder empire from the 1627 through the Restoration. No standalone volume about John Fowke exists. In fact, as far as I can tell I am the first person to ever write an essay focused on his career.