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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 charac…
1 year 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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 S…
1 year, 1 month ago
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, …
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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 a…
1 year, 2 months 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 …
1 year, 2 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 proces…
1 year, 2 months 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 w…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 3 months ago