Early Stuart England
FaktaSamfunnHistorieA narrative history of England (1603-1642)
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- Episode 2.111: Conclusion (00:33:17)
Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
- Episode 2.110: The Return of the King (00:36:22)
Spring 1660After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.
- Episode 2.109: A Free Parliament (00:34:32)
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 (00:31:20)
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 (00:33:19)
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 (00:31:36)
1659Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state
- Episode 2.105: Booth's Uprising (00:36:44)
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 (00:32:28)
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 (00:32:28)
Fall 1658With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.
- Episode 2.102: The Northern Theatre (00:36:35)
1658Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.
- Episode 2.101: The Other House (00:30:22)
January 1658Oliver Cromwell (who is the Lord Protector, definitely not the King) seeks to control the House of Commons through the new "Other House" (which is definitely not the House of Lords).
- Episode 2.100: Normalcy Amid Revolution (00:35:19)
1657Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal.
- Episode 2.99: The Non-Alliance Revisited (00:31:13)
1657Thirty years after the Duke of Buckingham's French alliance failed in spectacular fashion, Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate once again outdo their Stuart predecessors.
- Episode 2.98: A Crown Rejected (00:30:07)
1657Rival Cromwellian factions in parliament (who had disagreed on just about everything so far) once again split on a final question - whether to make the Lord Protector a King.
- Episode 2.97: Shake All Foundations (00:29:24)
1657The Second Protectorate Parliament gathers, but rather than heeding Cromwell's call to confirm the existing constitution, the men at Westminster re-open fundamental questions of religion and money.
- Episode 2.96: A Wicked Spirit Risen Amongst Friends (00:31:14)
1656A new radical religious group (the Quakers) suffers an internal power struggle, which threatens to de-stabilize the new parliament gathering at Westminster.
- Episode 2.95: The Colour of Your Detestable Practices (00:37:55)
1656It's election season for the Second Protectorate Parliament, and English voters use the opportunity to contemplate the meaning of republicanism, and how to reconcile liberty in Britain with slavery in the New World.
- Episode 2.94: Spanish Gold (00:31:08)
1656England once again makes the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet the centre-piece of their war strategy. Only this time, it works!
- Episode 2.93: The Sceptical Chymist (00:34:32)
1656While Oliver Cromwell and his friends re-make the English state, a collection of eccentric academics and amateur enthusiasts re-make the field of natural philosophy.
- Episode: 2.92 - The Hope of Israel (00:35:02)
1656The Lord Protector, an Amsterdam Rabbi, and a merchant in the underground Jewish community of London seek to reverse a 350 year old ban on Jews in England.
- Episode 2.91: The Younger Cromwell (00:36:28)
1655Oliver Cromwell sends his son Henry to Ireland, for an apprenticeship in ruling a nation.
- Episode 2.90: The Major-Generals (00:34:04)
1655Stymied by traditional institutions like parliament, the Protectorate turns to the army to extend its rule into the provinces.
- Episode 2.89: The Western Design Part 2 (00:37:28)
1655The New Model Army finds waging war on the other side of the world, and with little local intelligence, is harder than it looks.
- Episode 2.88: The Western Design Part 1 (00:34:29)
1654-5The Protectorate state draws up plans for the most ambitious amphibious campaign in English history, and the first step in conquering a global empire.
- Episode 2.87: The Sealed Knot (00:35:04)
Spring 1655An underground network of royalists seek to take advantage of instability within the Protectorate regime, but find that they are hampered by internal divisions of their own.