Podcast Episodes

AAG 1654-1660 Protectorate and Restoration

The course of the Protectorate was by no means smooth; but by 1658 the prospect of the return of the monarchy was remote indeed, stability had re-app…

1 year ago

431b A World Turned Upside Down?

Season 8 Episode 77

What does the English Revolution mean for you? Did it change anything or, was John Dryden right when he wrote in 1670, 'Thy wars brought nothing abou…

1 year, 1 month ago

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…

1 year, 1 month 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 def…

1 year, 1 month 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 …

1 year, 2 months 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, achiev…

1 year, 2 months 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 li…

1 year, 2 months 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 is…

1 year, 3 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 C…

1 year, 3 months 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 fu…

1 year, 3 months ago