Early Stuart England
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"Early Stuart England", a narrative history of England (1603-1642) from the perspective of the people who lived it.
Early Stuart England
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Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history ..read more
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January 1660
A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England ..read more
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December 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 ..read more
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1659
As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee ..read more
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Summer 1659
The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced ..read more
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1659
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 ..read more
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Fall 1658
With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector ..read more
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1658
Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia ..read more
Early Stuart England
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January 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 ..read more
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1657
Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal ..read more