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After the dissolution of the Rump Parliament, Oliver Cromwell and the Council of Officers decide on a new government. A new assembly - not an elected parliament - would be summoned, ordered to carry out the reforms long neglected by the Rump and to prepare a new parliament. It is given sixteen months to do this.
It won't last six months.
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This episode could not have been written without the following works:

Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.

Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.


John Coffey, 'Religious Thought', in Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.

Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.

Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.

Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.

John Morrill (ed.), The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol 2: 1 February 1649 to 12 December 1653, 2023

John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.


Alan MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004.

Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022.

Leo F. Solt, 'The Fifth Monarchy Men: Politics and the Millenium', Church History, 30, 3, 1961.

Jonathan Fitzgibbons, "'To settle a governement without somthing of Monarchy in it": Bulstrode Whitelocke’s Memoirs and the Reinvention of the Interregnum', The English Historical Review, 137, 586, 2022, 655-691.


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03.30 - Barebone's Parliament

We take a closer look at the Baptists, the Quakers, the Ranters, and the Fifth Monarchists, as the revolutionary energy of the Commonwealth of England is channeled into religious thought.
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Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.

Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.


John Coffey, 'Religious Thought', in Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.

Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.

Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.

Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.

John Morrill, The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol 2: 1 February 1649 to 12 December 1653, 2023

John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.


Alan MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004.

Ariel Hessayon, 'Abiezer Coppe and the Ranters', 2012.

John Gurney, 'Gerrard Winstanley and the Left', Past & Present, 235, 1, 2017.

Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022.

Leo F. Solt, 'The Fifth Monarchy Men: Politics and the Millenium', Church History, 30, 3, 1961.




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03.29 - Radicalism of the Soul

Back in London, Oliver Cromwell loses patience with the Rump Parliament. The New Model Army is getting restless, and Parliament appears to be prioritising its own power over the reforms its soldiers fought for.
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Jonathan Barth, The Currency of Empire, Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Cornell University Press, 2021).

Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.

Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.


Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.

Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.

Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.

John Morrill, The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol 2: 1 February 1649 to 12 December 1653, 2023

Nicholas Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: a Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649-1815, 2004.

Ian Roy, 'Prince Rupert', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.


Roger Hainsworth, Christine Churches, The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars, 1652-1674, 1998.

Christian J. Koot, ‘A “Dangerous Principle”: Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 1650—1689’, Early American Studies, 5.1 (2007), 132–63.

John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.


Alan MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004.


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03.28 - In the Name of God, Go!

The English defeat the Dutch, and Tromp faces his last battle.
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Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.

Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.


Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.

Nicholas Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: a Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649-1815, 2004.

Ian Roy, 'Prince Rupert', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.


Roger Hainsworth, Christine Churches, The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars, 1652-1674, 1998.

Christian J. Koot, ‘A “Dangerous Principle”: Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 1650—1689’, Early American Studies, 5.1 (2007), 132–63.

Thomas Leng, ‘Commercial Conflict and Regulation in the Discourse of Trade in Seventeenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal, 48.4 (2005), 933–54

Jonathan Barth, The Currency of Empire, Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Cornell University Press, 2021).

John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.


Alan MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004.


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03.27 - Masters of the Seas

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Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.

Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.


Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.

Nicholas Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: a Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649-1815, 2004.

Ian Roy, 'Prince Rupert', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.


Roger Hainsworth, Christine Churches, The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars, 1652-1674, 1998.

Christian J. Koot, ‘A “Dangerous Principle”: Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 1650—1689’, Early American Studies, 5.1 (2007), 132–63.

Thomas Leng, ‘Commercial Conflict and Regulation in the Discourse of Trade in Seventeenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal, 48.4 (2005), 933–54

Jonathan Barth, The Currency of Empire, Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Cornell University Press, 2021).

John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.


Alan MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004.


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ScotRev | The Covenanters in Restoration Scotland with Dr Allan Kennedy

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