Episode 88: The First Bishops' War

Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.

11 Kesä 202233min

Spring 1660After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.

4 Kesä 202236min

January 1660A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.

28 Touko 202234min

December 1659Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.

21 Touko 202231min

1659As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.

14 Touko 202233min

1659Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state

7 Touko 202231min

Summer 1659The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.

30 Huhti 202236min

1659Having 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.

23 Huhti 202232min