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Aug 2023
27m 24s

03.01 - The English Revolution

Samuel Hume
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Charles I has been executed, and the English Parliament establish a new, kingless, government. The reaction to the Regicide sweeps across Europe and the fledgling English empire.


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

  • Philip Baker, 'The Regicide', in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
  • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
  • Harris, T. Rebellion
  • Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold.
  • Healey, J. The Blazing World.
  • MacInnes, A., The British Revolution, 1629-60.
  • Charles Spencer, Killers of the King.
  • Michael J. Braddick, 'War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642-1646', in Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
  • Michael J. Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
  • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
  • Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
  • Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652.
  • Antonia Fraser, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
  • Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed
  • 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
  • Stuart Reid, Crown, Covenant, and Cromwell: The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639-1651.
  • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51
  • 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
  • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
  • Lenihan, Pádraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001


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