Эпизоды
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Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
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Spring 1660
After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors. -
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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. -
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. -
1659
As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee. -
1659
Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state -
Summer 1659
The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced. -
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. -
Fall 1658
With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector. -
1658
Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia. -
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). -
1657
Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal. -
1657
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. -
1657
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. -
1657
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. -
1656
A new radical religious group (the Quakers) suffers an internal power struggle, which threatens to de-stabilize the new parliament gathering at Westminster. -
1656
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. -
1656
England once again makes the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet the centre-piece of their war strategy. Only this time, it works! -
1656
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. -
1656
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. - Показать больше
