Episodes

  • Episode 2.111: Conclusion
    Jun 11 2022
    Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.
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    33 mins
  • Episode 2.110: The Return of the King
    Jun 4 2022
    Spring 1660

    After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.
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    36 mins
  • Episode 2.109: A Free Parliament
    May 28 2022
    January 1660

    A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.
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    35 mins
  • Episode 2.108: The Second Restoration of the Rump
    May 21 2022
    December 1659

    Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.
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    31 mins
  • Episode 2.107: As Hot as They Can Suffer It
    May 14 2022
    1659

    As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.
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    33 mins
  • Episode: 2.106 - Dangerous to the Commonwealth
    May 7 2022
    1659

    Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state
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    32 mins
  • Episode 2.105: Booth's Uprising
    Apr 30 2022
    Summer 1659

    The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.
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    37 mins
  • Episode 2.104: The Rump Resurrected
    Apr 23 2022
    1659

    Having run out of ideas, England once again turns to the men of the Rump parliament, who Oliver Cromwell had banished from Westminster six years earlier.
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    32 mins