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Although the term is not new and was already used by James Heath in his book ''A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms'', first published in 1662,<ref>Joad Raymond (2005). ''The invention of the newspaper: English newsbooks, 1641–1649'', Oxford University Press, ISBN 0
-19-928234-X, 9780199282340.  [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y-7VaaKgiScC&lpg=PA281&ots=BRo3AGJhA6&dq=Heath%20Chronicle%20DNB&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q=Heath%20Chronicle%20DNB&f=false p. 281]</ref> recent publications' tendency to name these linked conflicts the ''Wars of the Three Kingdoms'' represents a trend by {{As of|2007|alt=recent}} historians aiming to take a unified overview rather than treating some of the conflicts as mere background to the ''English Civil War''.  Some, such as Carlton, Gaunt and Royal have labelled them the '''British Civil Wars''',<ref>{{citation | last = Carlton | first = Charles  | year= 1994 | origyear= 1992 |title= Going to the wars: the experience of the British civil wars, 1638–1651 |publisher= Routledge |isbn= 0-415-10391-6}}.</ref><ref>{{citation| last= Gaunt | first = Peter |year=1997 |title=The British Wars 1637–1651|location= UK |publisher= Routledge |isbn=0-415-12966-4}}. An 88 page pamphlet.</ref><ref>{{citation| last= Royle |first= Trevor | year = 2004 | title = The British Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638–1660 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | isbn = 0-312-29293-7 | place = USA}}, alternatively {{citation | title = Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms | place = UK | publis(contracted; show full)he three kingdoms — remained unresolved, only postponed to re-emerge as matters fought over again in the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688. Only after this point did the features of modern Britain seen in the Civil Wars emerge permanently: a Protestant [[constitutional monarchy]] with England dominant and a strong [[standing army]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}

== See also ==

* [[British military history]]
* [[Catholicism and the wars of religion]]
* [[Thirty Years' War]]

==References and notes
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== Further reading ==
=== British Isles ===

* {{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Martyn|title=The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638–1651|year=1997|publisher=Blackwell|location=Oxford|isbn=0-631-19154-2}}
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