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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…
1 year, 4 months 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 E…
1 year, 5 months 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,…
1 year, 5 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…
1 year, 5 months 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 charac…
1 year, 5 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 7 months ago