Early Stuart England
217 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsA narrative history of England (1603-1642)
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Episodes
Episode 2.111: Conclusion
June 11, 2022 10:08 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBWherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
Episode 2.110: The Return of the King
June 04, 2022 10:01 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBSpring 1660 After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.
Episode 2.109: A Free Parliament
May 28, 2022 09:59 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBJanuary 1660 A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.
Episode 2.108: The Second Restoration of the Rump
May 21, 2022 10:28 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBDecember 1659 Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.
Episode 2.107: As Hot as They Can Suffer It
May 14, 2022 09:52 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB1659 As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.
Episode: 2.106 - Dangerous to the Commonwealth
May 07, 2022 10:15 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB1659 Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state
Episode 2.105: Booth's Uprising
April 30, 2022 09:57 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBSummer 1659 The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.
Episode 2.104: The Rump Resurrected
April 23, 2022 09:22 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB1659 Having run out of ideas, England once again turns to the men of the Rump parliament, who Oliver Cromwell had banished from Westminster six years earlier.
Episode 2.103: The Young Gentleman
April 16, 2022 10:35 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBFall 1658 With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.
Episode 2.102: The Northern Theatre
April 09, 2022 10:01 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB1658 Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.
Episode 2.101: The Other House
April 02, 2022 10:25 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBJanuary 1658 Oliver Cromwell (who is the Lord Protector, definitely not the King) seeks to control the House of Commons through the new "Other House" (which is definitely not the House of Lords).
Episode 2.100: Normalcy Amid Revolution
March 26, 2022 10:07 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB1657 Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal.
Episode 2.99: The Non-Alliance Revisited
March 19, 2022 08:35 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB1657 Thirty years after the Duke of Buckingham's French alliance failed in spectacular fashion, Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate once again outdo their Stuart predecessors.
Episode 2.98: A Crown Rejected
March 12, 2022 10:38 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MB1657 Rival Cromwellian factions in parliament (who had disagreed on just about everything so far) once again split on a final question - whether to make the Lord Protector a King.
Episode 2.97: Shake All Foundations
March 05, 2022 10:47 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB1657 The Second Protectorate Parliament gathers, but rather than heeding Cromwell's call to confirm the existing constitution, the men at Westminster re-open fundamental questions of religion and money.
Episode 2.96: A Wicked Spirit Risen Amongst Friends
February 26, 2022 11:21 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB1656 A new radical religious group (the Quakers) suffers an internal power struggle, which threatens to de-stabilize the new parliament gathering at Westminster.
Episode 2.95: The Colour of Your Detestable Practices
February 19, 2022 10:08 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB1656 It's election season for the Second Protectorate Parliament, and English voters use the opportunity to contemplate the meaning of republicanism, and how to reconcile liberty in Britain with slavery in the New World.
Episode 2.94: Spanish Gold
February 12, 2022 11:32 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB1656 England once again makes the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet the centre-piece of their war strategy. Only this time, it works!
Episode 2.93: The Sceptical Chymist
February 05, 2022 10:57 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB1656 While Oliver Cromwell and his friends re-make the English state, a collection of eccentric academics and amateur enthusiasts re-make the field of natural philosophy.
Episode: 2.92 - The Hope of Israel
January 29, 2022 10:59 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB1656 The Lord Protector, an Amsterdam Rabbi, and a merchant in the underground Jewish community of London seek to reverse a 350 year old ban on Jews in England.
Episode 2.91: The Younger Cromwell
January 22, 2022 11:01 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB1655 Oliver Cromwell sends his son Henry to Ireland, for an apprenticeship in ruling a nation.
Episode 2.90: The Major-Generals
January 15, 2022 10:52 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB1655 Stymied by traditional institutions like parliament, the Protectorate turns to the army to extend its rule into the provinces.
Episode 2.89: The Western Design Part 2
January 08, 2022 10:54 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB1655 The New Model Army finds waging war on the other side of the world, and with little local intelligence, is harder than it looks.
Episode 2.88: The Western Design Part 1
January 01, 2022 10:33 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB1654-5 The Protectorate state draws up plans for the most ambitious amphibious campaign in English history, and the first step in conquering a global empire.
Episode 2.87: The Sealed Knot
December 25, 2021 10:39 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBSpring 1655 An underground network of royalists seek to take advantage of instability within the Protectorate regime, but find that they are hampered by internal divisions of their own.
Episode 2.86: The Protectorate Parliament
December 18, 2021 11:09 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBFall 1654 Lord Protector Cromwell opens his first parliament, and soon discovers what James or Charles could have told him - that managing the men at Westminster is no easy task.
Episode 2.85: Opinions Derogatory to God
December 11, 2021 10:19 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBNow Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell is forced to finally make some concrete decisions about England's spiritual life. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his choices are as much political as religious.
Episode 2.84: The Imperial Turn
December 04, 2021 10:50 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB1654 Having seized control of the state, Cromwell immediately ends the war with the Dutch, and adopts a much more conventional foreign policy.
Episode 2.83: The Instrument of Government
November 27, 2021 10:53 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBDecember 1653 John Lambert, after orchestrating the demise of the latest attempt at a political settlement (the Nominated Assembly), produces his own solution - a written constitution.
Episode 2.82: The Nominated Assembly
November 20, 2021 10:30 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB1653 With the Rump hastily dissolved, England turns to an ad hoc assembly to craft a new political order.
Episode 2.81: French Roundheads
November 13, 2021 10:45 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB1654 As social unrest in France takes a revolutionary turn, England sends out feelers to potential republican comrades.
Episode 2.80: Commonwealth Scotland
November 06, 2021 10:08 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB1652-3 With England distracted by the Dutch War, and turmoil at Westminster, a group of soldiers and administrators are left to determine Scotland's future on their own.
Episode 2.79: An End to Your Sitting
October 30, 2021 09:20 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBSpring 1653 A long stand-off culminates in the forced dissolution of the Long Parliament, twelve and a half years after its initial elections.
Episode 2.78: Impatience of Spirit
October 23, 2021 10:18 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB1652-3 Oliver Cromwell struggles to hold the disparate elements of the Commonwealth coalition together, but the mounting pressure seems to make a break all but inevitable.
Episode 2.77: Adventurers and Soldiers
October 16, 2021 09:51 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB1652 Having pacified all organized resistance in Ireland, the Puritan Commonwealth regime contemplates how to rule a pre-dominantly Catholic nation.
Episode 2.76: The Anglo-Dutch War
October 09, 2021 10:06 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB1652 The republics of England and the Netherlands test each other in battle, and in doing so act out a debate in naval tactics that had been brewing for a century.
Episode 2.75: The Rump and the Army
October 02, 2021 10:21 - 40 minutes - 37 MB1651-2 As England prepares for a Dutch war, factions within the Commonwealth find that they have enemies at home.
Episode 2.74: The Key of Wealth
September 25, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB1652 Desperate to match the modernizing credit economy of the Dutch, the Commonwealth turns to a been enthusiast, an impoverished inventor, and England's spinsters.
Episode 2.73: The End of a Friendship
September 18, 2021 10:02 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB1651-1652 After decades of close co-operation, the Anglo-Dutch relationship falls apart due to heated economic competition.
Episode 2.72: Barbados
September 11, 2021 10:25 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB1651 Having pacified Scotland and Ireland, the Commonwealth regime looks to secure one last component of the old Stuart realms - the New World colonies.
Episode 2.71: Tied to Impossibilities
September 04, 2021 10:10 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB1651 Amid the soul searching after their defeat at Worcester, the royalists re-assess the philosophical underpinnings of their cause.
Episode 2.70: The Tories
August 28, 2021 10:18 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB1650-1 As Henry Ireton seeks to impose Commonwealth rule on Ireland, he finds his work obstructed by a persistent guerilla campaign.
Episode 2.69: A Bell, a Bib, and a Rattle
August 21, 2021 09:24 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MB1651 When the Scots and Charles find themselves unable to defend Scotland, they turn the tables on Oliver Cromwell, and invade England.
Episode 2.68: The Commonwealth Navy
August 14, 2021 10:14 - 41 minutes - 38 MB1649-50 In an effort to project the Commonwealth's military and economic power beyond the British Isles, the New Merchant faction re-organizes the navy.
Episode 2.67: Almost a Miracle
August 07, 2021 09:39 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBSummer 1650 Oliver Cromwell marches north to Scotland - and into a well laid trap.
Episode 2.66: The Exile King
July 31, 2021 09:38 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MB1649-1650 Charles II attempts to balance his desire for revenge on the men who killed his father, and the need to build allies in Europe.
Episode 2.65: I Do Declare and Promise
July 24, 2021 09:59 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MB1650 The Commonwealth government searches for the words to define itself, and at the same time, bind the people of England to its rule.
Episode 2.64: The Propagation of the Gospel in Wales
July 17, 2021 10:23 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB1650 A divided Commonwealth government institutes a pilot program in Wales that will determine the future of religion in England.
Episode 2.63: A Concentrated Assault on Sin
July 10, 2021 10:09 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB1649-50 While Cromwell continues his campaign in Ireland, Scotland veers from theocracy to reconciliation with the Stuart monarchy.
Episode 2.62: Hatred and Horror
July 03, 2021 09:36 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBSummer/Fall 1649 Oliver Cromwell takes the New Model Army into Ireland, where it faces a renewed coalition of royalist forces.