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410 Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer
Season 8 Episode 46
Once the decision was taken to put Charles on trial, the Commissiobners agonised about the detail at Westminster; the trial must be seen to be fair. …
1 year, 6 months ago
409 Agreement of the People
Season 8 Episode 45
The New Model, Levellers and Radical MPs reacted with steely determination to the adoption of the Newport treaty. It was probably Ireton that inspire…
1 year, 6 months ago
English Revolution Q&A
Season 3 Episode 46
Sam Hume of Paxbritannica Podcast and I have teamed up for a festival of fun, a jamboree of questions about the English Revolution, im anticipation o…
1 year, 7 months ago
408 The Treaty of Newport
Season 8 Episode 44
In July. Hamilton launched his army of Scots across the border, in confident expectation that his 14,000 would be swelled by enthusiastic English roy…
1 year, 7 months ago
407 The Peoples' Distress
Season 8 Episode 43
If the people of England had gone to war to build a better world, by January 1648 they were seriously unimpressed with what Utopia looked like. The i…
1 year, 7 months ago
406 Engagements
Season 8 Episode 42
In November 1647 at Corkbush field near Ware, Fairfax faced a dangerous threat to army unity - the work of the Leveller Agitators had incited some re…
1 year, 7 months ago
405 The Putney Debates
Season 8 Episode 41
Following the attenpt by parliament to close the army down without pay, and the resulting August 1647 coup, the army was a seething mass of worries a…
1 year, 8 months ago
404 A New Model Coup
Season 8 Episode 40
In July, England had the prospect of king, Fairfax and Army triumphantly entering London with a new, open and tolerant constitution and a bright futu…
1 year, 8 months ago
403 No Mere Mercenary Army
Season 8 Episode 39
With the king under their control, the determination of Fairfax's Army made Presbyterian parliamentarians buckle. And when Ireton presented the caref…
1 year, 8 months ago
402 Enemies of the State
Season 8 Episode 38
In 1647 The New Model Army became a battleground between Independant and Presbyterian factions. Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell were caught in the…
1 year, 9 months ago