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431a Afterlives
Season 8 Episode 76
One of two self indulgent episodes to usher out the first phase of the English revolution, this episode is about the fates of some of those people in whose companies we have lived for some time, and …
Published on 6 months ago
430 The Comeback Kid
Season 8 Episode 75
The Army had mounted another coup, and its Committee of Safety now sought to carve out yet another form of the Republic in the face of the Rump's defiance - and the deep weariness of most of the ordi…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
429 The Good Old Cause
Season 8 Episode 74
The transfer of power between the first Protector and the second was smooth and uneventful; in December 1658 it appeared that England was, and would remain, a republic. But when parliament reconvened…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Oliver Cromwell: Life and Times with Miranda Malins
Season 8 Episode 73
Miranda Malins is an historian, author, novelist and a member of the Cromwell Association. She takes a look back at Cromwell, his life, times, achievements and failures, and the myths and opinions wh…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
428 Make Haste to be Gone
Season 8 Episode 72
In 1658, the year started with hopeful clarity. There was a new constitution om a firmer footing, and a new parliament was about to sit. There was little sign any more of royalist rebellion, the Comm…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
427 Republic: Learning, Philosophy, Science
Season 8 Episode 71
Thomas Hobbes has been described as 'one of the true founders of modernity in Western culture'. His most famous work Leviathan was inspired by the issues raised by the Revolution, published in 1651 a…
Published on 8 months ago
426 Living with the Republic
Season 8 Episode 70
In London, and towns like Oxford, the Protectorate saw the return of stability, economic change and a revived social scene - and the arrival of the Coffee house, and the penny university. Stability a…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
425 Republic: Court and Culture
Season 8 Episode 69
Cromwell's court struck a balance between the status required of a head of state, and the Cromwell's own openbness and informality. It was a court full of music, as was the supposedly joyless puritan…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
424 King Cromwell
Season 8 Episode 68
After a year of the rule of the major generals, there was no money to support their militia. Now, the obvious solution was to repeat and continue the decimation tax; but the Council of State felt tha…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
423 Designs and Major Generals
Season 8 Episode 67
There was much about Cromwell that was Elizabethan. He was fiercely patriotic, he dreamed of building as trading nation, and laying low the Spanish Empire with a Protestant Alliance. The Western Desi…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago