50. Grindletonians, Ranters, Diggers and Quakers
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Diggers were early communists and Ranters feel like hippies. Do it in the road. It’s all good because it’s all god. Quakers and Baptist...
5 Mar 202126min
49. Muggles, Ranters and Diggers
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. What part of history did Rowling mine for ideas? This part. Muggles, Grindletonians, Ranters, Diggers, Quakers, oh my. This episode exp...
26 Feb 202133min
48. Commonwealth ; The Promise is given
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Honest administration of government? Getting there, we get rid of 90% of the corruption. Cheap, abundant food. The Malthusian limits ar...
19 Feb 202125min
47. 2nd English Civil War and Execution of Charles I
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A Second English Civil War and a 3rd Scots invasion? Are the royalists nuts? Aren't they tired of war? The New Model Army still exists,...
12 Feb 202124min
46. The Putney Debates and Oliver Cromwell
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This one is heavy on narrative history and lighter on analysis and theory. We cover the Scots intervention in the Civil War in 1643 . T...
5 Feb 202142min
45. The Civil War Begins, Reluctantly
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Arctic Acoustic is back as we explore the reluctant beginnings of the Civil War and take it up to the creation of the New Model Army. Th...
29 Jan 202140min
44. Stuart Constitutional Problems
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Coverage of the constitutional issues that plagued the Stuarts in what looks like an attempt at Bourbon style despotic rule. Seems li...
22 Jan 202140min
43. Puritan Psychology vs Stuart Military Fiascos
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Which war god came down to Earth in 1625 to lead the Stuart military adventures? Was it Jehovah, Odin, Tyr or Thor? Nope, it was a bl...
15 Jan 202141min
