The bravery of Derbyshire men proved the deciding factor
in a 12th Century civil war, as Patrick Coleman reports.
THE FIRST IMAGE that comes to mind when most people think of civil war in England is that of Cavaliers and Roundheads, the clash between king and parliament, Charles and Cromwell, that shook the 17th century to its core. But there have in fact been many civil wars in the nation’s turbulent history…