Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

By Samuel HumeSociety & Culture Education History

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March 08, 2020 01.36 - Root and Branch
Back in the reign of James VI/I, the plantations of Ireland came under official review. Middlesex, looking to cut costs and raise funds, looked across the Irish Sea to the growing colonial project of the Plantations of Ireland. Why were these costing so much money, why were they not bringing in profit, and why were they still so Irish?!

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:
- Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ''Civilizinge of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s', in The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
- Nicholas Canny, Making Ireland British, 1580-1650

For a full bibliography, see the website.

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33 min
February 16, 2020Bonus - Early Modern English Witchcraft with Professor Darren Oldridge
Prof. Oldridge joins me to talk about witchcraft and religion in early Stuart England,
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42 min
January 20, 202001.35 - The Sword of the Magistrate
By the end of his reign, James is unwilling to entertain the more ludicrous accusations of witchcraft, and Charles continues this approach. Puritanism, the new bogeyman of the Anglican church, appears the most vocal supporter of the trials, and so the established clergy approach the topic warily. And the magistrates and judiciary have seen the last twenty years of legal precedent, of cases thrown out and judges publicly shamed, and have no interest in risking their careers.

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This episode primarily makes use of the following sources:
Gaskill, Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Levack, Brian (ed.) The Oxford Handbook
Holmes, R., Witchcraft in British History (1974)
MacFarlane, A., Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 1970)
Levack, B., 'State-Building and Witch Hunting', in Darren Oldridge (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader (London, 2002)
Poole, R., (ed.), The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories (2002)
A full bibliography can be found on the website.

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38 min
January 12, 202001.34 - War and Peace
Charles comes to terms with his French and Spanish enemies, and we examine what has been going on outside of Europe. The East India Company survives significant threats, while the Pilgrims gain new neighbours. Virginia continues its war with the locals, while Europeans in the West Indies commit a genocide.
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In this episode I made particular use of the following publications. See the website for a full bibliography:
Dalrymple, William, (2019) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Virginia Dejohn Anderson, (1998) 'New England in the Seventeenth Century', The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I
Beckles, H. M. (1998). ‘The “Hub of Empire”: The Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century’, The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I
Lawson, Philip, (1993). The East India Company : a history
Stern, P. J. (2011). The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

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33 min
December 29, 2019 Bonus - New England Revisited
Allen Ayers from the Political History of the United States podcast comes on to talk all about New England in the 1620s.

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30 min
December 22, 2019 Bonus - The Life of Barnet Burns, Pākehā Māori
Thomas from the History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast tells the tale of Barnet Burns, a sailor turned trader turned Pākehā Māori.

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1 hr 5 min
December 15, 2019 Bonus - Buckingham and Berry
I chat with David from The Siècle about the two assassinations we've just covered: the Duke of Buckingham, and the Duc de Berry. They were both killed for political reasons, but the reaction to their deaths could not have been more different, while their assassins, John Felton and Louis Pierre Louvel, were either celebrated or forgotten.

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33 min
December 08, 201901.33 - Constitutional Crisis
Parliament is back, and they are not happy. The Petition of Right isn't worth the paper its written on, and King Charles had flagrantly disregarded the spirit of it. He was displaying worrying tendencies - promoting Arminians and crypto-Catholics, and violating the fundamental rights of his subjects to raise money. The death of the Duke of Buckingham, rather than marking a sea change in unpopular government policy, instead cements it.

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In this episode I made particular use of the following publications:
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire.
David Smith, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689
Kishlasnky, M, A Monarchy Transformed: 1603-1714
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State: Volume 1, 1618-29.

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25 min
November 17, 2019 Bonus - The Industrial Revolutions
Dave Broker from the Industrial Revolutions podcast presents this guest episode on the engine, pun intended, of Britain's imperial might.

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25 min
November 10, 201901.32 - The Martyr Assassin
John Felton, the man who rammed a dagger into the heart of the second most powerful individual in the British Isles, claimed he did so out of patriotism and piety. That's probably the truth, but it wasn't the whole truth. Felton had serious personal grievances with the Duke of Buckingham, and had spent months trying to get his justice.

We also look at the early years of the future Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, and his brushes with the Puritans and with Arminianism. He will play a central role in future Caroline religious policy and the outbreak of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.info
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPax
In this episode I made particular use of the following publications:
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire.
David Smith, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689
Kishlasnky, M, A Monarchy Transformed: 1603-1714
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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32 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…