Early Stuart England
A narrative history of England (1603-1642)
Episodes
After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.
A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.
Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.
As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.
Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state
The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.
Having run out of ideas, England once again turns to the men of the Rump parliament, who Oliver Cromwell had banished from Westminster six years earlier.
With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.
Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.
Oliver Cromwell (who is the Lord Protector, definitely not the King) seeks to control the House of Commons through the new "Other House" (which is definitely not the House of Lords).
Outside of London and Westminster, the people of England adapt to a new normal.
Thirty years after the Duke of Buckingham's French alliance failed in spectacular fashion, Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate once again outdo their Stuart predecessors.
Rival Cromwellian factions in parliament (who had disagreed on just about everything so far) once again split on a final question - whether to make the Lord Protector a King.
The Second Protectorate Parliament gathers, but rather than heeding Cromwell's call to confirm the existing constitution, the men at Westminster re-open fundamental questions of religion and money.
A new radical religious group (the Quakers) suffers an internal power struggle, which threatens to de-stabilize the new parliament gathering at Westminster.
It's election season for the Second Protectorate Parliament, and English voters use the opportunity to contemplate the meaning of republicanism, and how to reconcile liberty in Britain with slavery in the New World.
England once again makes the capture of a Spanish treasure fleet the centre-piece of their war strategy. Only this time, it works!
While Oliver Cromwell and his friends re-make the English state, a collection of eccentric academics and amateur enthusiasts re-make the field of natural philosophy.
The Lord Protector, an Amsterdam Rabbi, and a merchant in the underground Jewish community of London seek to reverse a 350 year old ban on Jews in England.
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