Episode 2.87: The Sealed Knot

1643/1644As parliament struggles to build a replacement to William Laud's anti-Calvinist church, disorder and uncertainty spreads through the parishes of England.

3 Okt 202041min

Summer 1644With the royalist position in the north collapsing at Marston Moor, Charles fights for his life in the south.

26 Sep 202038min

1644Prince Rupert goes on the march to save the beleaguered royalist army of the North. At Marston Moor he meets a joint Anglo-Scottish army for the largest battle of the war.

19 Sep 202039min

1643/1644New soldiers enter England from Ireland and Scotland, changing the course, and nature, of the war.

12 Sep 202041min

1643/1644Oxford is transformed from a sleepy university town into a royal court full of factional infighting.

5 Sep 202047min

1643/1644London spends a winter without coal from royalist-controlled Newcastle.

29 Aug 202038min

1643-44With the Scottish alliance providing added pressure, parliament finally divides into two factions on the religious question.

22 Aug 202037min

1630-1643The limits of religious freedom are tested in the New England colonies. 380 years later a podcaster repeatedly fails to pronounce "Massachusetts".

15 Aug 202048min