Episode 17: The Human Cost of the British Civil Wars
Season 1 of '1666 and All That' comes to an end with a vividly revealing account of how the English state set out to support surviving victims of the Civil Wars of the 1640s. The day after the battle ...
11 Juli 202345min
Episode 16: Raising a Glass to the 17th Century
Author Henry Jeffreys has charted British history through its relationships - commercial, industrial and social - with alcohol. And as we discover when Henry talks to Paul and Miranda in this episode,...
20 Juni 202340min
Episode 15: A King and a Poet Recreated in Fiction
From Philippa Gregory to Robert Harris, historical novelists are increasingly turning to the 17th century for inspiration. In this episode, writer Julie Maxwell joins Miranda and Paul to talk about he...
6 Juni 202348min
Episode 14: Meeting the Mughal Empire
When Thomas Roe was sent by King James I to be ambassador to the Mughal Empire in 1615, he discovered a vast and sophisticated polity that far surpassed England in population, wealth and military migh...
16 Maj 202348min
Episode 13: Crowning Glories
In the week that sees a new King Charles crowned in London, Miranda and Paul unearth vivid coronation stories from 17th-century England - including details of the ceremonies for the two previous beare...
2 Maj 202333min
Episode 12: Colonial Designs, part 2
In the second of two episodes examining the origins of the English - later British - empire, Paul and Miranda are joined by Gabriel Glickman of the University of Cambridge. Gabriel's new book, 'Making...
18 Apr 202340min
Episode 11: Colonial Designs, part 1
The 17th century saw early English attempts to carve out territories in the New World, Africa and beyond, with lasting - and all too often tragic - legacies. In the first of two episodes examining the...
4 Apr 202343min
Episode 10: Class Wars in the Capital
Fifty years after the publication of Christopher Hill's celebrated Marxist analysis of the English Civil War, 'The World Turned Upside Down', historian Michael Sturza has written a new book that repri...
21 Mars 202341min
