Please note: All seats are unreserved. Historian Steve Capstick and novelist Tony Bryan in conversation. Cheshires role in the English Civil War offers rich pickings for would-be writers of historical fiction. Apparently, the man who sentenced King Charles I to death was a Cestrian; the last battle of the war was fought on Cheshire soil and Royalist stronghold Chester city suffered a 16-month siege between 1644 and 1646!