Podcast Episodes

AAG 1660-1666 Restoration

The settlements following the Restoration didn't turn out exactly as the Three Kingdoms or indeed Charles imagined, but nonetheless for the moment ki…

22 hours ago

448 Not So Merrie

Season 9 Episode 16

After dismissing parliament of Oxford in 1681, Charles pursued alliance with the Tories and emasculation of the Whigs and Dissenters at all political…

2 weeks ago

English Objects with the Three Ravens

Eleanor and Martin of the Three Ravens podcast and I have one (probably last) walk round some objects that we think make us lie back and think of Eng…

3 weeks ago

447 The Exclusion Brouhaha

Season 9 Episode 15

In 1680 and 1681, Shaftesbury led an increasingly shrill and effective campaign, asppeling to popular opinion to force Charles into calling a new par…

4 weeks ago

446 The Popish Plot

Season 9 Episode 14

In 1678 a fantasist and charlatan, Titus Oates, made a series of wild and dramatic accusations of a Catholic plot to assasinate the king. A series of…

1 month, 1 week ago

445 Carnage

Season 9 Episode 13

In 1677, Danby finally seemed to have cracked Charles' problem with parliament - until a diplomatic game of will-he-won't-he in the Anglo Dutch war r…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

444 Danby's New Way

Season 9 Episode 12

Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby had a plan as Charles' new 'Prime Minister', to repair the damage from the disastrous Third Anglo Dutch War. To rebuild…

2 months, 1 week ago

443 Charles' Great Game

Season 9 Episode 11

In 1672, Charles sought to put the Treaty of Dover into operation; to join Louis XIV in making war on the Dutch Republic. The plan was to replace de …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Roifield and David's Stories of England in 50 Objects

Roifield and David talk about 5stories of England as part of the Very English Chat project, to tell stories of England in 50 objects.

‘A very English …

2 months, 4 weeks ago

442 The Treaty of Dover

Season 9 Episode 10

After a half an episode on the really important stuff - Nell Gwyn, Aphra Behn and Restoration theatre, we reach possibly the most remarkable treaty a…

3 months ago