Tag: God
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The Armies
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So this section was originally supposed to be a part of Episode 5 – Cavaliers and Roundheads, but it just kept growing, started to sidetrack the narrative, and had I let it go on like that, we never would have gotten anywhere, so I pulled it out and created this…
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The Restoration
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Today, we conclude our run of episodes on the English Revolution. Since the death of King Charles, we’ve seen numerous attempts to cement a Republican Constitution for Britain, but none of them have succeeded. Here now, at the very end, we’ll witness the last round of squabbling between the army…
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The Good Old Cause
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, So we left off our story in May 1657, with Oliver Cromwell’s decision to not allow himself to be Crown King. But as we are about to see, while Cromwell himself had built up enough gravitas to rule merely as Lord Protector, when he died, that gravitas died with him.…
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The War on Christmas
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, As you know, the triumph of Parliament over the King in the First Civil War put a bunch of Puritans in power. This bunch of Puritans wasted no time trying to implement a whole series of religious reforms designed to roll back not only Archbishop Laud’s recent innovations to the…
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The Humble Petition and Advice
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, After frustration with the first Protectorate Parliament led Oliver Cromwell to prematurely dissolve the body in January 1655. Oh, wait, what’s that, Mr. Lord Protector? It wasn’t premature. You just have to go by lunar months? Okay. After frustration with the first Protectorate Parliament led Oliver Cromwell to totally legitimately…
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The Instrument of Government
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, Last time we saw two consecutive legislative of bodies, the Rump Parliament and the Nominated Assembly, abruptly dissolved by men with guns. Despite his reputation as the Slayer of Parliaments, though, it doesn’t really look like Oliver Cromwell was happy to see either go away. Well, I guess in the…
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The Diggers
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, As we’ve discussed, the really revolutionary part of the English Revolution got going after the end of the First Civil War, leading to things like the army mutiny and the Leveler influenced Putney Debates. Then it picked up steam after the Second Civil War, leading to things like Pride’s Purge…
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In The Name of God, Go
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, So we left off last time with Cromwell’s final victory over Charles II at the Battle of Worcester. Although for those of you who missed it, I did manage to find some time last week to put together a couple of supplementals, one on John Lilburne and one on the…
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The Crowing Mercy
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, After Charles I was executed, his eldest, who I’m now just going to start calling Charles II, spent the next year trying to figure out what to do next. There was no question that he was going to make some sort of play to reclaim his father’s throne, but he…
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Regicide
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions, After the New Model Army crushed the Scots at Preston and brought the curtain down on the Second Civil War, the question still remained: what to do with the King? As I mentioned last week, a Parliament had put its uncertainty on display by simultaneously voting back in January 1648…