Early Stuart England
217 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsA narrative history of England (1603-1642)
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Episode 2.12: Gloucester
July 18, 2020 10:41 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBSummer 1643 The royalists look to cap off a successful campaigning season by capturing Gloucester, the last parliamentary garrison blocking the entrance to South Wales.
Episode 2.11: News and Plots
July 11, 2020 10:21 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBSummer 1643 The people of England read about a series of royalist plots and parliamentary defeats in a new genre of print material - the newsbook. London is torn between defeatism and a determination to see the war through.
Episode 2.10: A Great Game
July 04, 2020 10:30 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBSummer 1643 The royalists win a string of victories from Yorkshire in the north to Cornwall in the west. Charles seems poised to link up his disparate forces, and take the upper hand in the war.
Episode 2.9: The North
June 27, 2020 10:13 - 37 minutes - 34 MB1642-1643 Outnumbered and divided, the parliamentarians of Yorkshire try to prevent the royalist army of the north from linking up with the King at Oxford.
Episode 2.8: War Without an Enemy
June 20, 2020 10:33 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB1642-3 Ralph Hopton and William Waller, two friends from their university days at Oxford, find themselves on opposite sides of the war in the West Country.
Episode 2.7: The Ancient Britons
June 13, 2020 06:44 - 36 minutes - 33 MB1642-3 The King's Welsh subjects rally to his cause, turning the western borderlands into one of the key strategic theatres of the war.
Episode 2.6: Governing War
June 06, 2020 05:55 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB1643 After the inconclusive fighting in 1642, both King and parliament set about trying to accomplish something no government had so far achieved in early Stuart England - construct a state capable of successfully waging war.
Episode 2.5: The Search for Allies in Britain
May 30, 2020 09:41 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB1642-3 Both parliament and the King look to expand the war by drawing in allies from Scotland and Ireland.
Episode 2.4: The Search for Allies in Europe
May 23, 2020 10:25 - 37 minutes - 34 MB1642-3 Queen Henrietta Maria travels to the continent in search of aid for the royalist cause. However, France and Spain are distracted by war, and she finds the Dutch deeply divided on English affairs.
Episode 2.3: Peace and Truth
May 16, 2020 10:53 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBFall 1642 After the inconclusive Battle of Edgehill, both parliament and the King come to grips with the fact that they are in a prolonged war.
Episode 2.2: Edgehill
May 09, 2020 10:45 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBSummer 1642 The Earl of Essex leads an army out of London, in search of the King. Meanwhile Charles scrambles to put together a force capable of meeting the rebels in battle.
Episode 2.1: Introduction
May 02, 2020 10:29 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBAs the title suggests, an introduction to the 1640s and 1650s, as well as some of the themes we'll be encountering. Looking forward to it!
Episode 105: Conclusions and Questions
April 25, 2020 09:41 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThank you to everyone who submitted questions, and to everyone who's listened to the show. Hope you stick around for the next 100 odd episodes!
Episode 104: But the Sign of a King
April 18, 2020 09:55 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBSummer 1642 After weeks of clashes between rival mobilization efforts, Charles formally raises his banner at Nottingham Castle. The Civil War has begun.
Episode 103: Choosing Sides
April 11, 2020 07:19 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBSpring 1642 On the verge of a civil war, both Charles and parliament refine their ideological arguments and present them to an anxious public.
Episode 102: I Think I Should Know Them
April 04, 2020 10:24 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBWinter 1641/2 After 16 months of concessions, Charles makes a stand and demands the impeachment of six Junto leaders in parliament.
Episode 101: Telling Stories to the People
March 28, 2020 10:28 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBWinter 1641 With the raising of an Irish expeditionary force stuck in political gridlock, Charles and the Junto start to mobilize less formal military resources on the streets of London.
Episode 100: The Broken Men
March 21, 2020 03:58 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBFall 1641 Fearing the rise of Puritanism in both England and Scotland (and seeing an opportunity in the political chaos at Westminster) the Catholics of Ireland rise up.
Episode 99: King Pym
March 14, 2020 10:36 - 30 minutes - 28 MBSummer/Fall 1641 In the absence of the King, the Junto deals with a backlash against their radicalism, and reliance on the Scots.
Episode 98: The Incident
March 07, 2020 11:59 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBSummer/Fall 1641 After three years of failing to find an English solution to his Scottish problem, Charles heads to Edinburgh to find a Scottish solution to his English problem.
Episode 97: Justice and Execution
February 29, 2020 01:19 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBSpring 1641 The political crisis escalates as Charles turns to a disgruntled army, and the Junto mobilize the crowd in London.
Episode 96: Stone Dead Hath No Fellow
February 22, 2020 10:22 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBSpring 1641 The Junto faces its first test of unity - whether to seek the death, or just the political ruin of Thomas Wentworth.
Episode 95: The Triennial Act
February 15, 2020 01:44 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWinter 1641 The Junto hopes that a popular bill requiring a parliament every three years will distract from their controversial religious alliance with the Presbyterian Scots. Charles works to ensure it does not.
Episode 94: The Long Parliament
February 08, 2020 12:23 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBFall 1640 Less than 6 months after he dissolved the Short Parliament, Charles opens a new session at Westminster, the Long Parliament. This time the dissident peers and their Scottish allies hold all the cards.
Episode 93: Our Honest Ends
February 01, 2020 02:03 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB1640 Charles attempts to throw back the Scottish invasion, but finds that his efforts and undermined by collaborators within England.
Episode 92: A Wretched and Beggarly Condition
January 25, 2020 11:52 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB1640 After a failed parliament, Charles scrambles to prepare for another summer of war. Meanwhile the Scots make much better use of the winter truce.
Episode 91: The Short Parliament
January 18, 2020 02:45 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB1640 After an eleven year hiatus, a parliament once again opens at Westminster. While Charles hopes that the threat of a Scottish rebel army will inspire his subjects to be co-operative, a group of dissidents plays their own game.
Episode 90: Divide and Conquer
January 11, 2020 13:01 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB1635-1640 Thomas Wentworth uses threats and intimidation to cow the various factions in Irish society. As Charles prepares for the first parliament in 11 years, Wentworth comes home to try his methods in England.
Episode 89: The Two Kingdoms
January 04, 2020 02:14 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MB1639 While a Scottish parliament confirms the legality of the Covenantor revolution, Charles decides to rally his English subjects with a parliament of their own.
Episode 88: The First Bishops' War
December 28, 2019 02:04 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB1639 Almost two years after the Prayer Book protests, Charles finally uses military power to suppress his unruly Scottish subjects. Or, at least tries to.
Episode 87: Preparations
December 21, 2019 11:21 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB1639 Scotland and England mobilize for war. Defying generations of precedent, Charles does so without the aid of a parliament.
Episode 86: The Theatre for These Kingdoms
December 14, 2019 02:55 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB1638 Charles finally starts treating the situation in Scotland seriously. However, he is torn between finding a political solution and a more direct, military one.
Episode 85: The Covenant
December 07, 2019 12:03 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB1637-8 In the absence of a coherent state response, the Scottish Prayer Book Rebellion morphs into a provisional government. At its core is the Covenant, a bold statement of religious and political principles.
Episode 84: A New Book
November 30, 2019 12:32 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB1637 Charles and William Laud attempt to impose an English-style Book of Common Prayer in Scotland. It does not go well.
Episode 83: Moral Victories
November 23, 2019 05:09 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB1637-8 When Charles rejects their request for a parliament, the Providence Island gang decides to force the King's hand by challenging Ship Money collections in court.
Episode 82: Stigmata Laudis
November 16, 2019 12:34 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB1637 In an effort to stamp out Puritanism, William Laud has three religious radicals publicly mutilated.
Episode 81: The Politics of Culture
November 09, 2019 10:57 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB1630-1636 Charles encourages a flourishing of painting, poetry, and theatre that articulates and supports his larger ideological project.
Episode 80: Clash of the Titans
November 02, 2019 10:37 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB1635-1636 As France fully commits to the conflict on the continent, Charles hopes to take advantage by selling his Ship Money fleet to the highest bidder.
Episode 79: Remember Caesar
October 26, 2019 11:12 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB1635 The death of Lord Treasurer Richard Weston opens up a stiff competition at court to replace him. The outcome of the contest will shape future English policy.
Episode 78: Ship Money
October 19, 2019 11:31 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB1634-1635 Seeking to once again insert England into European geo-politics, Charles implements a revenue raising scheme to pay for a powerful navy - Ship Money.
Episode 77: The Fens
October 12, 2019 07:17 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB1634 A massive drainage project in the marshlands of East Anglia creates tensions between the Crown, local land owners, and commoners.
Episode 76: The UnDecay of Trade
October 05, 2019 11:25 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB1634 A peace-time trade boom creates new winners and losers among London's merchant oligarchs. Municipal power shifts from merchants doing business in the Netherlands to those exploiting markets in the Mediterranean and the East.
Episode 75: Managerial Overkill
September 28, 2019 10:22 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB1633 Charles visits Scotland to receive his crown and continue his father's religious reforms. Though he finds himself a stranger in his native land.
Episode 74: Thorough
September 21, 2019 10:06 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB1633 Intent on turning Ireland into a profitable enterprise, Charles selects a new Lord Deputy - Thomas Wentworth, his top man in the north of England.
Episode 73: An Unspectacular Orthodoxy
September 14, 2019 00:36 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB1633 The newly elevated Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, puts his distinctive stamp on the English Church.
Episode 72: Paying the Bills
September 06, 2019 23:45 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB1630-1633 Having determined to work without parliament, Charles gets creative in extracting revenue from his subjects.
Episode 71: Reversing the Conquest
August 31, 2019 12:27 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB1632 As the Swedish King, Gustavus Adolphus, re-draws the map of Germany, Charles contemplates calling a parliament and re-joining the Protestant war effort.
Episode 70: The Lion in the North
August 24, 2019 10:59 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB1630-1631 The Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus overturns a decade of Catholic dominance in Germany, opening new diplomatic opportunities for England.
Episode 69: The Book of Orders
August 17, 2019 10:22 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBWinter 1631 In the wake of widespread social unrest in 1629, England's property owning elites and the central government co-operate on the reform of county governance.
Episode 68: A Godly Community
August 10, 2019 10:42 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB1630 Squeezed out by William Laud's anti-Calvinist Church, the Calvinists of England struggle to adapt to their new circumstances. Some look to escape England altogether, and establish a new life in America.