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Part I Sam and David English Revolution Q&A
Season 8 Episode 49
We had a vast number of brilliant quesrtions. Sam (Pax Britannica) and David (of this parish) had a lovely time - but went on a bit, there's no denyi…
1 year, 10 months ago
412 Levelers and Diggers
Season 8 Episode 48
In April 1649 the new Commonwealth was under siege, enemies with and without. The Levelers saw the new Commonwealth as a betrayal of the revolution, …
1 year, 10 months ago
411 Commonwealth and Free State
Season 8 Episode 47
On 30th January, Charles I went to the scaffold, the first king to be publicly tried and executed by his people. He died with enormous dignity - and …
1 year, 10 months ago
Britain's Prehistory with Richard Grove
Season 8
I am about to start a new series for Shedcast members, called Birth of Britain. It takes British history from the year dot to somewhere around 600. S…
1 year, 11 months ago
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, 11 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, 11 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years ago