Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

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  • 02.54 - The Great Battle of Naseby

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    For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

    • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
    • Harris, T. Rebellion
    • Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
    • Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
    • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
    • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
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      30 min
    • 02.53 - The New Model Army

      Parliament faces a crisis as divisions in their armies come to a head. Oliver Cromwell and Sir William Waller take aim at the earls of Manchester and Essex. The latest attempt at peace talkes between Charles I and the parliamentarians collapse. Calls for a clean slate are answered by the Self-Denying Ordinance and the New Model Ordinance. Sir Thomas Fairfax gets promoted.

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      For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

      • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
      • Harris, T. Rebellion
      • Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
      • Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
      • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
      • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
      • Cotton, A. N. B. (1977). Cromwell and the Self-Denying Ordinance. History, 62(205), 211–231.
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        33 min
      • 02.52 - Wasted Opportunities

        Essex walks into a trap of his own making at Lostwithiel, and divisions between the Lord General, Manchester, Waller, and Cromwell, lead to another missed opportunity at the Second Battle of Newbury.

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        For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

        • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
        • Harris, T. Rebellion
        • Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
        • Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
        • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
        • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
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          27 min
        • 02.51 - The Battle of Five Armies

          Royalist, Parliamentarian, and Covenanter meet on Marston Moor, and the fate of the North is decided.

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          For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

          • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
          • Harris, T. Rebellion
          • Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
          • Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
          • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
          • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History

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            30 min
          • 02.50 - Drunk with Blood

            Prince Rupert campaigns in the North, Charles outplays Waller in the south, and Marston Moor looms on the horizon

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            For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

            • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
            • Harris, T. Rebellion
            • Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
            • Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
            • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
            • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
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              30 min
            • 02.49 - Unfortunate Madness

              Charles I sends the Earl of Glamorgan to negotiate behind Lord Deputy Ormond's back. There's no way this will go badly.

              https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

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              For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

              • Little, Patrick, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
              • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
              • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
              • Lenihan, Pádraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001
              • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
              • Harris, T. Rebellion
              • Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
              • John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
              • David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
              • John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
              • https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rushworth-papers/vol6/pp238-249

              • For a full bibliography, see the podcast website.

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                30 min
              • 02.48 - Butlerian Jihad

                The Marquis of Ormond, James Butler, tries to come to terms with the Irish Confederacy. Political factions in the Confederacy, King Charles' meddling, the Protestant Irish lobby, the Covenanters in Ulster, the Parliamentarians in Munster, and Ormond's own personal desires make this a very painful process.

                https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

                Check out the podcast website

                Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

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                For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

                • Little, Patrick, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
                • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
                • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
                • Lenihan, Pádraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001
                • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
                • Harris, T. Rebellion
                • Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
                • John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
                • David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
                • John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland

                • For a full bibliography, see the podcast website.

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                  32 min
                • 02.47 - Inchiquin and Broghill

                  The unpopular Cessation of Arms divides the Protestant forces in Ireland, and nowhere was this division clearer than in the province of Munster. Lord Inchiquin dramatically declared his defection from the king, to parliament, but he has different priorities to his subordinate, Lord Broghill.

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                  For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

                  • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
                  • Harris, T. Rebellion
                  • Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
                  • John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
                  • David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
                  • John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
                  • Patrick Little, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
                  • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000

                  • For a full bibliography, see the podcast website.

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                    29 min
                  • 02.46 - Witch Hunters on Trial

                    Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, faces humiliation on multiple fronts. His critics are uniting, his prosecutions are falling, and the ruinous cost of hiring him suddenly seems less worthwhile.

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                    This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

                    - Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

                    - Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

                    - Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

                    - Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

                    - Peter Elmer, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)

                    - Gaskill, Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Levack, Brian (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, (2016)

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                    38 min
                  • 02.45 - Before They Are Hanged

                    We see the result of the Witchfinder General's efforts in the summer assizes of Chelmsford and Bury St. Edmunds. One was headed by the Earl of Warwick, a noble with little in the way of legal training, and the other by a triumvirate of two priests and a lawyer. One goes exceptionally well for the witchfinders, and the other... not so much.

                    Check out the podcast website

                    Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

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                    This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

                    - Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

                    - Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

                    - Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

                    - Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

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                    29 min

                  About Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

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                  Pax Britannica is a narrative history podcast covering the empire upon which the sun never set. Shortlisted for the 2023 Independent Podcast Awards, Pax Britannica follows the events which created an…

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