Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

03.45 - Jericho

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"I will not seek to set up that which Providence hath destroyed, and laid in the dust, and I would not build Jericho again."

Oliver Cromwell refuses to become a king, and a new constitution takes effect. But Cromwell is not long for this world, and the question of succession had still not been settled.

  • Alice Hunt, Republic, 2024.
  • Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.
  • Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.
  • Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.
  • Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.
  • Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic, 2020.
  • Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.
  • Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022.
  • Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire, 2017.

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