Episode 45: England Mobilizes

1643Parliament seeks an alliance with the Covenantor Scots, and in doing so, is forced into an uncomfortable clarification of its religious policy.

8 Aug 202038min

1643In order to free up soldiers for the war in England, Charles orders the Marquis of Ormond (the commander of the government forces in Ireland) to negotiate a truce with the rebels of the Kilkenny C...

1 Aug 202031min

Summer 1643In East Anglia, a local gentleman named Oliver Cromwell emerges as one of parliament's leading commanders.

25 Jul 202037min

Summer 1643The royalists look to cap off a successful campaigning season by capturing Gloucester, the last parliamentary garrison blocking the entrance to South Wales.

18 Jul 202037min

Summer 1643The people of England read about a series of royalist plots and parliamentary defeats in a new genre of print material - the newsbook. London is torn between defeatism and a determination ...

11 Jul 202042min

Summer 1643The royalists win a string of victories from Yorkshire in the north to Cornwall in the west. Charles seems poised to link up his disparate forces, and take the upper hand in the war.

4 Jul 202040min

1642-1643Outnumbered and divided, the parliamentarians of Yorkshire try to prevent the royalist army of the north from linking up with the King at Oxford.

27 Jun 202037min

1642-3Ralph Hopton and William Waller, two friends from their university days at Oxford, find themselves on opposite sides of the war in the West Country.

20 Jun 202038min