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Cromwell and the Poets
Season 8 Episode 62
Contemporary poets found it difficult to deal with Cromwell, both before and after his death. Margaret Oakes talks about how the approach they took, and what they chose to reflect of the man and his …
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
419 Cromwell and his Reputation
Season 8 Episode 61
"Never man was highlier extolled, and never man baselier reported of and vilified” write Richard Baxter - a contemporary of Oliver Cromwell, who was not a fan. In this he was closer to the truth than…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Nelson with Dominic Sandbrook
Season 8 Episode 60
Nelson was a military genius and fierce patriot, idolised by his men and the British public - and held up to ridicule too, for his affair with Emma and his treatment of Fanny. In his book for childre…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
AAG 1649-1653 The Commonwealth
Season 8 Episode 59
In 1649 the English parliament proudly declared that freedom had been restored and that King and Lords had been rejected. But in other ways, the new Commonwealth failed to bring about a new world. Tr…
Published on 10 months ago
AAG 1646-1649 To Kill a King
Season 8 Episode 47
In 1646, Charles secretly left Oxford, not sure whether to appeal to the English in London, or the Scots at Newark. It was the start of a long process of three years, which would see torturous negoti…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
418 Barebones
Season 8 Episode 57
In his haste to expel the Rump which had failed so badly, Cromwell and the Army officers came up with a temporary expedient. The Nominated assembly would be chosen from the most sober, Godly and inte…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
417 Kicking the Rump
Season 8 Episode 56
The promised land looked for so longingly by so many seemed in 1653 to be stubbornly remote. Legal reform blocked, religious programmes cancelled, an apparently corrupt parliament, high taxes, and st…
Published on 11 months ago
Milton, Nedham and the Commonwealth with Anthony Bromley
Season 8 Episode 55
John Milton and Marchamont Nedham were unlikely bedfellows; and yet they became friends, worked closely together and in their very different ways sought to promote the English Republic to the country…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
416 Acts of Settlement and War
Season 8 Episode 54
The English Commonwealth took a very different approach to settling the threats which had faced it in 1649, and the future of the three kingdoms. In Ireland, the guiding principle was retribution; in…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
415 Rumpers
Season 8 Episode 53
So, while the army was away, August 1649 to September 1651 what had the Rump parliament been doing to build the promised new world of Liberty? We find out that social reform takes a back seat to mora…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago