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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 6 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 6 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 6 months, 4 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 7 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 7 months, 3 weeks ago
422 Healing and Settling?
Season 8 Episode 66
Cromwell might have felt that the first 9 months went rather well, from his perspective - the Council of State was working well, getting things done, the settlement of the Commonwealth was proceeding…
Published on 8 months ago
Announcing the 2025 History of England Podcast Tour
Season 8 Episode 65
This year we go to York and West Yorkshire, from 8th to 17th September. We'll stay in the Spa town of Harrogate, and in glorious York, Capital of the North with its Cathedral, the Minster, the mediev…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
421 Completing the Settlements
Season 8 Episode 64
Between 1654 and 1657, the the Tender of Union with Scotland and the Act of Settlement of Ireland were played out. They were very different in character. Over the following centuries, the former was …
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lionheart - Ransom and Revenge
Season 8
I am very pleased that Dirk Hoffman-Becking, of the History of the Germans podcast, has put together this episode about a very favourite event - the capture and hostage of Richard the Lionheart. Why …
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago
420 Lord Protector
Season 8 Episode 63
Whether or not Cromwell knew about John Lambert's 'coup' of December 1653, by the end of the month England had a new constitution and a new Head of State - the Lord Protector. Cromwell was installed …
Published on 9 months ago