Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

Latest Episodes:

02.52 - Wasted Opportunities Aug 07, 2022

Show notes

Essex walks into a trap of his own making at Lostwithiel, and divisions between the Lord General, Manchester, Waller, and Cromwell, lead to another missed opportunity at the Second Battle of Newbury.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
Harris, T. Rebellion
Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.51 - The Battle of Five Armies Jul 31, 2022

Show notes

Royalist, Parliamentarian, and Covenanter meet on Marston Moor, and the fate of the North is decided.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
Harris, T. Rebellion
Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.50 - Drunk with Blood Jul 24, 2022

Show notes

Prince Rupert campaigns in the North, Charles outplays Waller in the south, and Marston Moor looms on the horizon

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
Harris, T. Rebellion
Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.49 - Unfortunate Madness Jun 19, 2022

Show notes

Charles I sends the Earl of Glamorgan to negotiate behind Lord Deputy Ormond's back. There's no way this will go badly.

https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Little, Patrick, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
Lenihan, Pádraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001
Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
Harris, T. Rebellion
Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rushworth-papers/vol6/pp238-249

For a full bibliography, see the podcast website.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.48 - Butlerian Jihad Jun 15, 2022

Show notes

The Marquis of Ormond, James Butler, tries to come to terms with the Irish Confederacy. Political factions in the Confederacy, King Charles' meddling, the Protestant Irish lobby, the Covenanters in Ulster, the Parliamentarians in Munster, and Ormond's own personal desires make this a very painful process.

https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Little, Patrick, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
Lenihan, Pádraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001
Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
Harris, T. Rebellion
Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland

For a full bibliography, see the podcast website.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.47 - Inchiquin and Broghill May 29, 2022

Show notes

The unpopular Cessation of Arms divides the Protestant forces in Ireland, and nowhere was this division clearer than in the province of Munster. Lord Inchiquin dramatically declared his defection from the king, to parliament, but he has different priorities to his subordinate, Lord Broghill.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
Harris, T. Rebellion
Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
Patrick Little, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000

For a full bibliography, see the podcast website.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.46 - Witch Hunters on Trial Apr 24, 2022

Show notes

Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, faces humiliation on multiple fronts. His critics are uniting, his prosecutions are falling, and the ruinous cost of hiring him suddenly seems less worthwhile.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

- Peter Elmer, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)

- Gaskill, Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Levack, Brian (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, (2016)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.45 - Before They Are Hanged Apr 18, 2022

Show notes

We see the result of the Witchfinder General's efforts in the summer assizes of Chelmsford and Bury St. Edmunds. One was headed by the Earl of Warwick, a noble with little in the way of legal training, and the other by a triumvirate of two priests and a lawyer. One goes exceptionally well for the witchfinders, and the other... not so much.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.44 - The Witchfinder General Apr 10, 2022

Show notes

Old grudges and fears come to the fore in Essex, as word spreads that witch-finders roam.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

Listen to the History of England

Charity for Ukraine:

Disasters Emergency Committee

UK Government Guidance

Amnesty International

This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

02.43 - The Hunt Begins Apr 02, 2022

Show notes

Matthew Hopkins, the infamous Witch-Finder General, begins his campaign through south-eastern England, as we discuss the opening accusations of the greatest and deadliest witch hunt in English history.

Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected