Battle for London

The story of the battle of Turnham Green and how ''the sack of London'' was prevented by Londoners. As Charles I''s army marched on the capital in the autumn of 1642, Nehemiah Wallington, a wood-turner living near London Bridge, wrote in his journal, ''those cruel cavilers doe so plonder & pillage & commit Rapin & use such cruelty that the poore people are caused to fly from house and home to save...