My earliest memories of civil war are the vivid black and white television pictures from Biafra and then Vietnam, followed by my first colour sighting of Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. Crowland was a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War until its fall in 1643. Our own family tree has a branch there: my Granny was married and my Mum christened beneath the huge dog tooth arch that still remains.
Today the Civil Wars has a new meaning for me. The Civil Wars are musicians Joy Williams and John Paul White (who does look scarily like Hugh Laurie). With their own roots in California, Nashville and Alabama, their music forms a beautiful, haunting backdrop to inspired lyrics that take you forward as well as back. I got Barton Hollow
for Christmas and if there was any strife in my head beforehand it has long been replaced by a lingering sense of peace.
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