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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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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 sou…
1 year, 8 months 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 …
1 year, 8 months 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 fin…
1 year, 9 months ago
414 The Ground of Liberty
Season 8 Episode 52
The deal struck between the Covenanters and Charles brought an invasion from the Commonwealth that faced annihalation at Dunbar in September 1650. Ex…
1 year, 9 months ago
413 Cromwell in Ireland
Season 8 Episode 51
The Council of State were convinced that only General Cromwell could deliver victory in Ireland; and Cromwell used this to negotiate the best possibl…
1 year, 9 months ago
Part II Sam and David's English Revolution Q&A
Season 8 Episode 50
Part two, about 30 questions I think; Religion, the public Sphere, culture - and a couple of 'What Ifs' which were really good fun
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1 year, 10 months ago