Early Stuart England

Jun 11 2022 216 ep. 35 mins 325
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A narrative history of England (1603-1642)

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Episode 2.111: Conclusion

Jun 11 2022 33 mins  
Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.

Episode 2.110: The Return of the King

Jun 04 2022 36 mins  
Spring 1660After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.

Episode 2.109: A Free Parliament

May 28 2022 34 mins  
January 1660A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.

Episode 2.108: The Second Restoration of the Rump

May 21 2022 31 mins  
December 1659Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.

Episode 2.107: As Hot as They Can Suffer It

May 14 2022 33 mins  
1659As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.

Episode: 2.106 - Dangerous to the Commonwealth

May 07 2022 31 mins  
1659Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state

Episode 2.105: Booth's Uprising

Apr 30 2022 36 mins  
Summer 1659The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.

Episode 2.104: The Rump Resurrected

Apr 23 2022 32 mins  
1659Having run out of ideas, England once again turns to the men of the Rump parliament, who Oliver Cromwell had banished from Westminster six years earlier.

Episode 2.103: The Young Gentleman

Apr 16 2022 32 mins  
Fall 1658With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.

Episode 2.102: The Northern Theatre

Apr 09 2022 36 mins  
1658Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.