From the Gunpowder Plot to the killing of a king, from Cromwell and the Civil Wars to the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution. Hosts Miranda Malins and Paul Lay combine historical rigour, entertaining storytelling and revealing guest interviews to draw this vibrant period out of the shadows.
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Plots and conspiracies abounded in the the late 16th and early-mid 17th centuries. And with them came the evolution of a newly-professionalised culture of subterfuge and spying. Paul and Miranda explo...
Episode 14: The Man Who Inspired 'Shōgun' (00:42:00)
Historian Giles Milton joins Miranda and Paul to talk about the life and times of William Adams, an English navigator who was part of a Dutch expedition to the Spice Islands. Adrift in the Pacific, th...
Episode 13: The Enigmatic Monarch (00:44:54)
Who was King Charles II? As a controversial new drama-doc portrays him as a brutal avenger of his father's killers, Paul and Miranda go in search of the real Charles. With guest historians Linda Porte...
Episode 12: What Did the Stuarts Do For Us? (00:33:53)
For better or for worse, the Stuart dynasty dominated the 17th-century English political landscape - with inevitable consequences for Scotland, Ireland and wider parts of a nascent empire. History's v...
Episode 11: The Luck of the Habsburgs (00:44:30)
From humble roots in Switzerland and Swabia, the Habsburg dynasty endured for 900 years, its survival due in part to genetic good fortune. As historian Martyn Rady tells Paul and Miranda, the Habsburg...
Episode 10: Shooting the Century (00:40:16)
The 17th century has rarely been as popular with film and TV dramatists as 'sexier' periods such as the Tudors, the Romans and the Second World War. But recently, 17th-century stories and characters h...
Episode 9: Dynastic Change in China (00:47:28)
Great storytelling meets historical rigour in the podcast that brings the 17th century vividly to life. China at the start of the 17th century was wealthy, strong and well-governed – the Ming dynasty...
Episode 8: Painting a Nation (00:45:24)
Miranda and Paul are joined by art critic and author Laura Cumming, whose acclaimed book 'Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death' explores painting in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. ...
Episode 7: From Hangings to Housework (00:25:58)
After a short mid-season break, Paul and Miranda return with a timely exploration of 17th-century diaries. This was the century in which the habit of keeping daily personal reflections became widespre...
Episode 6: An Irish Epic (00:29:30)
After James II was deposed and replaced by the Protestant William and Mary in 1688, he began a military campaign in Ireland, from where he hoped to launch a bid to regain his crown. But the Jacobite a...
Episode 5: Cromwell and the Jews (00:24:47)
Paul and Miranda reflect on one the most remarkable episodes of 17th-century history - Oliver Cromwell's decision to overturn the 360-year-old exclusion of Jews from England. Despite opposition from ...
Episode 4: Never Mind the Tudors - It's Hampton Court Palace, 17th-century Style (00:42:07)
Gareth Russell's latest book charts the 500-year history of Hampton Court Palace near London, best known for its place in the high melodrama of Henry VIII and his wives. Yet as Gareth reveals to Miran...
Episode 3: To Beard or Not to Beard (00:25:09)
From Shakespeare's plays to courtly fashions after the Glorious Revolution, facial hair - or the lack of it - was a key cultural signifier in 17th-century Europe, and is now a topic attracting an impr...
Episode 2: Power to the People (00:52:42)
Great storytelling meets historical rigour in Season Two of the podcast that brings the 17th century vividly to life. The Levellers were among the most influential and misunderstood political movemen...
Episode 1: James and the Giant Feasts (00:45:02)
Miranda and Paul launch Season 2 with a myth-busting profile of King James VI and I, a fascinating and much-misunderstood monarch whose reign was packed with drama, intrigue and excess. Their guest is...
Coming Soon: Season 2 of 1666 and All That (00:02:21)
They're back! Paul Lay and Miranda Malins return with a second season of the podcast that captures the drama and complexity of a pivotal age in British, European and global history. The 17th centur...
Episode 17: The Human Cost of the British Civil Wars (00:45:03)
Season 1 of '1666 and All That' comes to an end with a vividly revealing account of how the English state set out to support surviving victims of the Civil Wars of the 1640s. The day after the battle ...
Episode 16: Raising a Glass to the 17th Century (00:40:14)
Author Henry Jeffreys has charted British history through its relationships - commercial, industrial and social - with alcohol. And as we discover when Henry talks to Paul and Miranda in this episode,...
Episode 15: A King and a Poet Recreated in Fiction (00:48:14)
From Philippa Gregory to Robert Harris, historical novelists are increasingly turning to the 17th century for inspiration. In this episode, writer Julie Maxwell joins Miranda and Paul to talk about he...
Episode 14: Meeting the Mughal Empire (00:48:03)
When Thomas Roe was sent by King James I to be ambassador to the Mughal Empire in 1615, he discovered a vast and sophisticated polity that far surpassed England in population, wealth and military migh...
Episode 13: Crowning Glories (00:33:08)
In the week that sees a new King Charles crowned in London, Miranda and Paul unearth vivid coronation stories from 17th-century England - including details of the ceremonies for the two previous beare...
Episode 12: Colonial Designs, part 2 (00:40:48)
In the second of two episodes examining the origins of the English - later British - empire, Paul and Miranda are joined by Gabriel Glickman of the University of Cambridge. Gabriel's new book, 'Making...
Episode 11: Colonial Designs, part 1 (00:43:17)
The 17th century saw early English attempts to carve out territories in the New World, Africa and beyond, with lasting - and all too often tragic - legacies. In the first of two episodes examining the...
Episode 10: Class Wars in the Capital (00:41:46)
Fifty years after the publication of Christopher Hill's celebrated Marxist analysis of the English Civil War, 'The World Turned Upside Down', historian Michael Sturza has written a new book that repri...
Episode 9: When Venice Defied the Pope (00:20:21)
Paolo Sarpi is far from a household name, even among aficionados of 17th-century history. But Paul Lay believes Sarpi deserves greater recognition, and in this episode he explains why to co-host Miran...
