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Areopagitica
right|thumb|Des Wilson in 1987 as president of the Liberal Party, holding as symbol of his office a copy of Areopagitica
'''''Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England''' is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing. Areopagitica'' is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right.
Battle of Marston Moor
1644 battle of the First English Civil War
Sieges of Taunton
1644 series of three blockades during the First English Civil War
Second Battle of Newbury
1644 battle that took place during the First English Civil War
Self-denying ordinance
passed by the Long Parliament of England on 3 April 1645