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Early Stuart England
Greg Koabel
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A narrative history of England (1603-1642)
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11-06-2022
Episode 2.111: Conclusion
Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
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11-06-2022
Episode 2.111: Conclusion
Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
04-06-2022
Episode 2.110: The Return of the King
Spring 1660After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.
28-05-2022
Episode 2.109: A Free Parliament
January 1660A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.
21-05-2022
Episode 2.108: The Second Restoration of the Rump
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.
14-05-2022
Episode 2.107: As Hot as They Can Suffer It
1659As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.
07-05-2022
Episode: 2.106 - Dangerous to the Commonwealth
1659Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state
30-04-2022
Episode 2.105: Booth's Uprising
Summer 1659The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.
23-04-2022
Episode 2.104: The Rump Resurrected
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.
16-04-2022
Episode 2.103: The Young Gentleman
Fall 1658With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.
09-04-2022
Episode 2.102: The Northern Theatre
1658Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.
02-04-2022
Episode 2.101: The Other House
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).
26-03-2022
Episode 2.100: Normalcy Amid Revolution
1657Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal.
19-03-2022
Episode 2.99: The Non-Alliance Revisited
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.
12-03-2022
Episode 2.98: A Crown Rejected
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.
05-03-2022
Episode 2.97: Shake All Foundations
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.
26-02-2022
Episode 2.96: A Wicked Spirit Risen Amongst Friends
1656A new radical religious group (the Quakers) suffers an internal power struggle, which threatens to de-stabilize the new parliament gathering at Westminster.
19-02-2022
Episode 2.95: The Colour of Your Detestable Practices
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.
12-02-2022
Episode 2.94: Spanish Gold
1656England once again makes the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet the centre-piece of their war strategy. Only this time, it works!
05-02-2022
Episode 2.93: The Sceptical Chymist
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.
29-01-2022
Episode: 2.92 - The Hope of Israel
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.