Episode 55: The Forced Loan

1643-1648Decades of conflict come to an end in Europe, presenting post-monarchical England with a brand new geo-political landscape.

15 Touko 202143min

1649After a decade of conflict, England finds itself a changed nation on a new trajectory into the 1650s.

8 Touko 202141min

January 1649The King is put on trial. His life, and the future of England, hang in the balance.

1 Touko 202140min

December 1648A heavily purged parliament ends two and a half years of stalemate by putting the King on trial for his life.

24 Huhti 202136min

December 1648Frustrated with parliament's continued negotiations with the King, a group of army officers engineers a coup to seize control of Westminster.

17 Huhti 202133min

Fall 1648With England once again secure, parliament returns to that has plagued English politics for two and a half years - what to do with the King?

10 Huhti 202134min

1647-1648As the rest of the British Engager project falls apart, Ireland once again devolves into a new set of factions and alliances of convenience.

3 Huhti 202133min

1648Mutinies at the main navy dockyard in Chatham threaten to give royalist exiles a ticket back to England.

27 Maalis 202139min