Episode 2.5: The Search for Allies in Britain

1649-50While Cromwell continues his campaign in Ireland, Scotland veers from theocracy to reconciliation with the Stuart monarchy.

10 Jul 202138min

Summer/Fall 1649Oliver Cromwell takes the New Model Army into Ireland, where it faces a renewed coalition of royalist forces.

3 Jul 202137min

Spring 1649Fearing that they have merely traded one tyranny for another, the Levellers rise up to overthrow the infant Rump regime.

26 Jun 202135min

Winter 1649The men who executed the King struggled to define the new political world they've created.

19 Jun 202140min

1649London adapts to being the centre of a merchant republic with global ambitions.

12 Jun 202137min

1649The new masters of London re-organize England's system of international trade, with their eyes firmly set on the East India Company.

5 Jun 202142min

1633-1649The Calvert family founds the experimental colony of Maryland, but soon find their efforts undermined by the chaos of war.

29 Mai 202141min

1642-1649With trans-Atlantic ties disrupted by war, the American colonies are forced to grow up quickly.

22 Mai 202150min