Commentary Travis Perry holds an MA in history and answers questions on the website Quora. I have just read his short answer comparing Roundheads and Cavaliers during the English Civil War (1642–1651), a war that pit Puritans against Royalists, supporters of Parliament versus supporters of the King, Bible thumpers versus aristocrats, the emerging gentry and middle classes against the hereditary landowners, those who espoused high culture and those who saw the world through the egalitarian eyes of the recently translated Old Testament. Simply put, the people against the ruling class. For most readers, the English Civil War is irrelevant history, perhaps relevant in the long scheme of things but not in the short. The Cavaliers dressed in fancy clothes, they drank, and they only socialized with one another. They looked down on the lower classes and the masses. They were entitled. Have they disappeared? Not at all. Their lifestyle and …