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With the Short Parliament dissolved, Charles raises a new army as best he can without English taxation. But across the kingdom, resentment and unrest spreads, and unpopular officers and Laudian churches face the consequences. Fanning the flames were an endless stream of Covenanter propaganda, circulated along Puritan networks and plastered across towns and cities, while the Royalists mount their own campaign for public opinion.Listen to Human Circus HERE: https://pod.link/1194921513Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaDonate: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=o8YvWF6xKTcsS1U7xAzp2EqmYBGR5vQJwvIwI4VqZk4jXzM7iczctH2l9Yo9u0RcApBuid5Ojv9QsemhFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660 Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Smith, David, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To understand the past, sometimes we need to examine our values and subject them to philosophical analysis. The British Empire was a complex, varied entity that stretched across the world and changed over the centuries. How do we understand the mindset of those people in the C19th who created it, or lived in it? This episode is designed to get you thinking and analysing big questions and unpleasant moral problems. Ultimately the answers will be down to your judgements. Be warned some material is upsetting and contains references to genocide, racism, slavery, the holocaust, abortion and critiques of religion. I hope you find it stimulating.Listen to Age of Victoria here: https://pod.link/1234105258 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the Peace of Berwick, parliaments meet in England and Ireland. The Irish Parliament goes off without a hitch. The English... not so much.Listen to Agoraphobia here: https://pod.link/1068901505Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660 Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Smith, David, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After signing a treaty with the king, the Covenanters find it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. The General Assembly meets once more, but the Parliament of Scotland is held up in procedure for weeks, before being prorogued. Aware of the danger of foreign intervention, the Covenanters continue their diplomatic offensive with fantastic results.Listen to Agoraphobia here: https://pod.link/1068901505Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660 Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This was the talk I gave at this year's Intelligent Speech conference. I follow three interned 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War, as the British Government arrested them. Their eventual fates were very different, but first they would all have to pass through the crucible of the Arandora Star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After reading and loving 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire I asked historian, author, producer and podcaster Rebecca Rideal on to talk about it.Buy the book HERE.Register for the Regicide event HEREListen to Killing Time with Rebecca Rideal HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

King and Covenanter call up their forces and prepare for war. Alexander Leslie returns to Scotland. We look at how the armies are armed and trained, and how Scotland's famous castles held up in the era of gunpowder.Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660 Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veterans of the Thirty Years War were invaluable in the early Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and this episode looks at why. Why did so many Scots sign up to fight on the continent? Gold? Glory? Escaping a debt? Because they were arrested and forced to? All of the above. Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars MacKenzie, Kirsteen, The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663 Miller, James, 'The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650', in Zürcher, Erik-Jan (ed.), Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Murdoch, Steven and Grosjean, Alexia, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Murdoch, Steven, Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 For a full bibliography, see the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jared Books from A History of Maryland covers the winding background of the colonyListen to A History of Maryland : https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jared-books/a-history-of-maryland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I talk with When Diplomacy Fails' Zack Twamley about his new book, For God or the Devil: A History of the Thirty Years War. We chat about how the conflict is remembered, and what he's learnt after returning to the topic after seven years.Buy the book HEREListen to When Diplomacy Fails HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new prayer book sparks riots in July, more riots in August, a National Petition in September, a National Supplication in October, a new government in November. When things go badly wrong, they happen fast.Listen to the Research in Scottish History Podcast here: https://pod.link/1523363966Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars MacKenzie, K, The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663 For a full bibliography, see the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The confession of faith of the Kirk of Scotland, February 1638.Text courtesy of Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland: https://www.fpchurch.org.uk/about-us/important-documents/the-national-covenant-1638/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite being born in Scotland, Charles I left as a young child and did not return until he was in his thirties. Nevertheless, he tried to enforce his will much as his father had done. In one of the worst homecomings in history, the king would thoroughly antagonise vast numbers of his subjects.Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoCheck out the Timur Podcast: https://timurpodcast.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://Patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions. For a full bibliography, see the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wentworth and Laud try to reform the Church of Ireland, and face resistance. Plantation returns with a vengeance, and even powerful New English face the wrath of the Lord Deputy.Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxGive Ages of Conquest a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/ages-of-conquest-a-kings-and-generals-podcast/id1446527049For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Nicholas Canny, Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars Lennon, C, 'Protestant Reformations, 1550-1641', in The Cambridge History of Ireland See the website for a full bibliography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The political concessions known as the Graces remained a sticking point for Irish Catholics. They had bought and paid for them with taxation, but the last Lord Deputy had dragged his feet. Now, with Sir Thomas Wentworth in charge, perhaps the longed-for toleration would finally be made real.Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/PaxBritannicaFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars Lennon, C, 'Protestant Reformations, 1550-1641', in The Cambridge History of Ireland See the website for a full bibliography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Archbishop Laud spearheads the reform of the Church of England. Out with the new and in with the old, or so he said. Others disagreed and called for a different future for the church. The Court of High Commission and the Court of Star Chamber awaited them with fines, imprisonment, and mutilation.Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Russell, C. The Causes of the English Civil War Kishlansky, M. Monarchy Transformed Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars See the website for a full bibliography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles tries to avoid a parliament. Ship Money goes to court. The Hampden Case begins.Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War Mark Kishlansky, Monarchy Transformed Harris, T. Rebellion  Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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After the devastating raid at Fort Mystic, the Pequot nation is left without allies as the English and their indigenous allies continue their campaign of collective punishment. Far to the south, the English colonies of Montserrat and Barbados establish their unique characteristics; Montserrat, an Irish island in an English Atlantic world; and Barbados, an economic engine powered by the enslavement of Africans.Check out Intelligent Speech here: https://www.intelligentspeechconference.comCheck out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Richard Middleton, Colonial America Lipman, Andrew, 'Murder on the Saltwater Frontier', Early American Studies Winthrop, John, A History of New England Karr, Ronald Dale, "Why should you be so furious?": The Violence of the Pequot War', Journal of American History Katz, Steven T., 'The Pequot War Reconsidered', The New England Quarterly Grant, Daragh, 'The Treaty of Hartford: Reconsidering Jurisdiction in Southern New England', The William and Mary Quarterly Beckles, Hilary McD, A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market Block, Kristen and Shaw, Jenny, 'Subjects without an Empire: The Irish in the Early Modern Caribbean', Past and Present Hogan, Liam, McAtackney, Laura, and Reilly, Matthew C.,'The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?', History Ireland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Saybrook and the rest of Connecticut under siege, a combined Engish and Native force sets out on a daring raid to strike at the heart of Pequot territory.Vote in the British Podcast Awards: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voteCheck out Black Wallstreet, 1921: https://www.blackwallstreet-1921.com/Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.infoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPaxFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Virginia Dejohn Anderson, 'New England in the Seventeenth Century', in The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire Virginia Dejohn Anderson, New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century Richard Middleton, Colonial America Lipman, Andrew, 'Murder on the Saltwater Frontier', Early American Studies Winthrop, John, A History of New England Karr, Ronald Dale, "Why should you be so furious?": The Violence of the Pequot War', Journal of American History Katz, Steven T., 'The Pequot War Reconsidered', The New England Quarterly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices