The History of England Podcast 2025 Tour is 8th-17th September
David Crowther
421 Completing the Settlements
The Acts of Settlements of the Rump parliament are played out
Lionheart: Ransom and Revenge
The Lionheart and the Emperor
420 Lord Protector
From Commonwealth to Protectorate
Cromwell and the Poets with Margaret Oakes
How contemporary poets represented Cromwell
419 Cromwell and his Reputation
How history has viewed and judged Oliver Cromwell
Nelson Hero of the Seas with Dominic Sandbrook
Dominbic Sandbook and the story of Horatio Nelson
AAG 1649-1653 The Commonwealth
The story of the English Republic
418 Barebones
Surely the sober and Godly members of the Nominated Assembly would set the Commonwealth on stronger foundations?
417 Kicking the Rump
Time runs out for the Rump
Milton, Nedham and the Commonwealth with Anthony Bromley
Two creative originals from the English Republic – Milton and Nedham
416 Acts of Settlement and War
The attempt to settle affairs in Ireland and Scotland – and on the open seas with the Dutch
415 Rumpers
The Rump attempts to build a new world. And ends up fighting with old friends
414 The Ground of Liberty
As Charles sought to destroy the Republic, Cromwell’s army faced annhilation at Dunbar
413 Cromwell in Ireland
Cromwell’s nine month campaign of conquest in 1649 and 1650
Part II Sam and David’s English Revolution Q&A
Religion, Publ;ic Sphere, culture – and what if’s
Part I Sam and David’s English Revolution Q&A
Questions about Charles life and death, and the quarrel of the civil wars
412 Levelers and Diggers
Levelers and True Leveler demand reform
411 Commonwealth and New State
The public execution of a king – and a new republican Commonwealth
Prehistory with Richard Grove
An intoduction to British Prehistory with Dr Richard Grove
AAG 1646-1649 To Kill a King
The journey from Oxford to the scaffold, and from Ancient Constitution to Agreement of the People
410 Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer
Once the decision was taken to put Charles on trial, the Commissioners agonised about the detail at Westminster; the trial must be seen to be fair. But few canRead More
409 Agreement of the People
The Radicals and Army were determined to hold the king to account. Whatever parliament thought about it.
Sam & David’s Revolution Q&A
Sam Hume of Pax Britannica Podcast and I have teamed up for a festival of fun, a jamboree of questions about the English Revolution, in anticipation of a significantRead More
408 The Newport Treaty
In July. Hamilton launched his army of Scots across the border, in confident expectation that his 14,000 would be swelled by enthusiastic English royalists. England would know it’s fate atRead More
407 The Peoples’ Distress
If the people of England had gone to war to build a better world, by January 1648 they were seriously unimpressed with what Utopia looked like. The issues thatRead More
406 Engagements
In November 1647 at Corkbush field near Ware, Fairfax faced a dangerous threat to army unity – the work of the Leveller Agitators had incited some regiments to mutiny,Read More
405 The Putney Debates
Political debate for a democratic future
404 A New Model Coup
The New Model take matters into their own hands
403 No Mere Mercenary Army
With the king under their control, the determination of Fairfax’s Army made Presbyterian parliamentarians buckle. And when Ireton presented the carefully worked Heads of Proposals to the Officers andRead More
402 Enemies of State
Fairfax may be forced to choose – between parliamen or his soldiers
401 The Mind of a Martyr
Now Charles would have to negotiate. What did he want to achieve, and would the Scots leave England?
400 Many Thousand Citizens
The Levellers were not an organized, structured politial party or pressure group in the early days. They were a loose association of radicals who found they shared new ideas thatRead More
AAG 1643-1645 The First Civil War
A bloody conflict over religion and the Ancient Constitution
399 End Game
After Naseby things looked dire – could Charles manufacture a way to revive royalist fortunes?
Jonathan Healey and the Blazing World
Jonathan Healey and a revolutionary century
398 The Clubmen
The revolt of the Provinces
397 In Assurance of Victory
We come to 1645, and the first test of the New Model Army. To Charles and Rupert this was an opportunity to destroy it while full of raw recruits. ThroughRead More
396 The New Model
In discord was forged a sharp new sword of liberty…or of parliamentary tyranny, delete as applicable
Anglo Saxon Rendlesham
News from Excavations – and of a new Podcast series!
395 Forever Newbury
Charles faces Manchester at Newbury – and Montrose and Macolla create mayhem in Scotland
394 Lost With It All
In the summer of 1644 Parliament and Essex had a chance to finish it all.
393 We Saw No Light
1644 opened with Charles’ ‘Mongrel parliament’ at Oxford, and was the model of compliance. Not so at York where the noose of the Scots and Fairfax tightened around York. EnterRead More
392 The Neighbourhood Wars
The Civil wars brought violence into town, village and countryside
391 A National War
Between a quarter and a third of adult males up to 50 will fight in the first civil war. Most families will be affected in some way. Here is theRead More
Napoleon
Ridley Scott’s long awaited latest epic; a ‘character study’ of one of the most influential figures of European history, who reshaped a continent. It has been accompanied by furious debate,Read More
390 Leagues and Covenants
The Solemn League and Covenant will bring a Scottish army to Parliament – and an ocean of trouble
Madame Tussaud, Maria Manning, and the True Crime Controversy of 1849
Horrific murders that led to public debate about the ethics of true crime as drama
389 Newsheets and Newbury
In July 1643 all looked set fair for the royalist cause after a string of victories
Margaret Cavendish with Prof Margaret Oakes
Prof Oakes talks to me about Margaret Cavendish – poet, natural philosopher, duchess and 17th century celebrity