Home›Sources›Charles Carlton, "Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651" (1992)SourcesCharles Carlton, "Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651" (1992)Carlton, 1992Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Charles Carlton, "Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651" (1992)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/carlton-going-to-the-wars-1992.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Charles Carlton, "Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651" (1992). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/carlton-going-to-the-wars-1992Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-charles-carlton-going-to-the-wars-the-ex, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Charles Carlton, "Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651" (1992)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/carlton-going-to-the-wars-1992}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXCharles Carlton's demographic history of the British civil wars, first published in 1992, is the standard synthesis of the wars' human cost, giving separate death estimates for England, Scotland and Ireland built from contemporary and near contemporary records. Carlton later revised several of his own national figures in subsequent work, and the Irish estimate in particular remains contested among historians.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1 1A specialist academic demographic history of this specific war's casualties, the same tier this corpus already gives Peter Wilson's Europe's Tragedy (15889) on the Thirty Years War and Peter Blickle's Revolution of 1525 (52936) on the German Peasants' War for the identical reason: a leading, dedicated scholarly study of the conflict's human cost, not an inherited round number.NotesWell-attestedA demographic historian's own synthesis of the wars' death toll, built from national estimates rather than a single inherited figure; used here for the combined casualty range across England, Scotland and Ireland, with its own later revisions and the ongoing dispute over the Irish figure both named rather than smoothed over. 1CitationAuthorWell-attestedCharles Carlton 1PublisherWell-attestedRoutledge 1Publication YearWell-attested1992 1Source TypeWell-attestedDemographic study 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Charles Carlton, "Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651" (1992)tier 1Charles Carlton, Routledge, 1992Claims Backed By This Source (3 claims)This source backs 3 claims across the atlas. As facts: 2 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicWars & Conflicts, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested2Wars & ConflictsEnglish Civil WarGeneral References1Wars & ConflictsEnglish Civil WarComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year