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378 Protestations

In a time of national danger and an explosion of print and debate, the Protestation Oath of 1641...

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377 After Strafford

After Strafford, the idea of a genuine compromise was probably dead. Either king or Parliament...

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Three Ravens Yorkshire

Eleanor and Matin discuss folk traditions across England for the day, including the Bideford Foot...

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376 Letters of Blood

As opposition to reform gathered in parliament and the king plotted to regain control, all came...

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375 Divisions

Charles' response to the Scottish Declaration was severe; but it also caused a division in the...

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374 Paradise Lost

Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford believed that an accommodation could be reached with Charles - a...

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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Angevin Empire

This is the story of how Eleanor of Aquitane's choices helped create an Empire is Wesern Europe....

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373 Dreaming of a Golden Age

The Parliament that convened in November 1641 would define Charles' reign. He would have to offer...

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372 Go On Vigorously

Charles and his Privy Council stretched life and limb to equip and pay for a new army to pull the...

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371 Parliament Recalled

As an exhausted king arrived back in Whitehall, his view had not changed one whit - the Scots...

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370 Reduce to Obedience

'I expect not anything can reduce that people to obedience but force only' Charles wrote to...

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369 Daur ye say Mass in my lug?

Against sage advice, Charles was determined to bring Scottish and English churches into harmony,...

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368 A Prince's Punishments

In 1633 Thomas Wentworth arrived in Ireland - and despite great administrative efficiency,...

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367 New England

The colonists that traveled to New England were very different to the Chesapeake, and the society...

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366 The Chesapeake

Colonisation of the Chesapeake would be driven by its climate and its most successful crop -...

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365 Hub of Empire

'By what right?' In this episode we think about how the early English colonisers viewed their...

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History of England Tour 2023

News of the History of England Chester to Chepstow Tour in September 2023....

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364 Before the English Came

The 1630's saw an acceleration of English colonisation in the Americas. What cultures and peoples...

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363 Laud Unleashed

With Parliament banished, there was little restraint on Laud and Charles to implement the reforms...

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362 Free Men not Villeins

The Ship Money in 1637-8 was a courtroom battle sought for by both the king, and Hampden and the...

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