THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR (1642)
Strategies and tactics of war
THE LOWDOWN
Difficulty: Advanced
Time Period: 1642
Cabinets: 2
CRISIS
The English Civil War crisis committee will take delegates to 1642, during the First English Civil War, representing either the Parliamentarians or Royalists. Delegates will lead their respective sides into the costly and deadly affair of civil war in the 17th century fighting for sovereignty, rights and personal grudges. This military orientated crisis committee will seek to engage delegates by getting into the complicated strategies and tactics of the era of pike and shot warfare while also trying to go beyond a simple military crisis to include the key issues of logistics and war finance as the first standing armies in Europe emerged. All in the backdrop of increasing political radicalism, exotic ideologies and the potential for the earlier unrest in the Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland to spill into a War of the Three Kingdoms.
GREETINGS FROM THE CRISIS DIRECTOR
Lucas Brownson
Hello, I am Lucas a 3rd year BA History student at the LSE with a particular interest in the Early Modern period and military history. Thus, it may be unsurprising that I have been addicted to crisis since I started doing MUN 6 years ago, indeed a crisis committee was my first ever experience of MUN, and that I have been hooked on crisis staffing since backrooming LSEMUN 2023. I went on to be TeamLSE's crisis training officer in 2023/2024 and managed to get roped into being USG for academics and staffing for LSEMUN 2024. From which I have gained a ton of great memories and got to meet lots of amazing people. As such I hope to have a final send off and contribution to the crisis community by being crisis director at this year's installation of LSEMUN doing the same topic as my dissertation. I look forward to seeing faces both old and new.
