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The World Turned Upside Down – The British Civil Wars 1638-1651

Step-by-step Guide – Understanding the Civil Wars

2 min • 18 maj 2023

An introductory step-by-step guide to the causes, conflicts and consequences of the British Civil Wars. With Professor Peter Gaunt in three 30-minute podcasts. Coming 1st June 2023.

Senaste avsnitt

“A war of trenches, ramparts, palisades, bombardments and blockades”- Fortress warfare

17 januari | 28 min

The surprising story of peacemaking during the English civil wars

20 december 2024 | 31 min

Oliver Cromwell’s House of Lords

13 december 2024 | 31 min

Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate – A genuine revolution or a drift back to traditional government?

6 december 2024 | 31 min

The General who made the Restoration possible – General Monck

29 november 2024 | 31 min

Controversy – Oliver Cromwell in Ireland (1649-1650)

22 november 2024 | 40 min

Living through civil war sieges in Newark – the civilian experience

15 november 2024 | 31 min

Witch-hunting in revolutionary England

8 november 2024 | 41 min

The Civil War Memorials Project – Battlefields Trust

1 november 2024 | 27 min

The last days of the Republic – The return of the King – Part 2

25 oktober 2024 | 37 min

The last days of the Republic – The fall of Richard Cromwell – Part 1

18 oktober 2024 | 36 min

The importance of radicalism in the 1640s

16 oktober 2024 | 43 min

New understandings of Charles I kingship

16 oktober 2024 | 47 min

Killing the New Model Army – The fate of Cromwell’s old soldiers 1660-1685

11 oktober 2024 | 34 min

Creating new civil war resources for schools – Best practice

9 oktober 2024 | 21 min

Ruling without Parliament – Charles I

4 oktober 2024 | 28 min

Multitudes of hands – The power of petitioning in seventeenth-century England

27 september 2024 | 34 min

Prince Rupert’s burning love of England, discovered in Birmingham’s flames

20 september 2024 | 24 min

The making of Oliver Cromwell – His early years

9 september 2024 | 49 min

Were the Commonwealth and the Protectorate doomed from the start?

8 juli 2024 | 34 min

The bloodiest battle – Marston Moor (2nd July 1644)

28 juni 2024 | 28 min

Yorkshire in the Civil Wars – A bloody strategic battleground

21 juni 2024 | 35 min

Uncovering a ‘forgotten’ massacre at Shelford House

14 juni 2024 | 17 min

Raids, skirmishes and sieges – How the Civil War was fought

7 juni 2024 | 28 min

‘The Christian Centurion’ – Sergeant-Major-General Philip Skippon

31 maj 2024 | 32 min

‘Black Tom’ – Sir Thomas Fairfax, Creator and Commander of the New Model Army

24 maj 2024 | 38 min

Taken for a Soldier – Conscript or Volunteer?

17 maj 2024 | 31 min

1647 – A year of tumultuous and unstable ‘peace’

10 maj 2024 | 42 min

‘Yet One Warning More, to Thee O England’ – Quakers and the Restoration, 1660-1689

3 maj 2024 | 29 min

‘Light Risen Out of Darkness’ – The Civil Wars and Early Quakers, 1646-1660

26 april 2024 | 26 min

1641 Depositions Project – Lessons for todays divided world

19 april 2024 | 28 min

The Irish Rebellion 1641 – Sorting the facts from the fake news

12 april 2024 | 27 min

John Poyer – Starting the second civil war in Wales

5 april 2024 | 35 min

The Civil War encapsulated in a single siege

28 mars 2024 | 39 min

Beyond England’s Borders – Wales Besieged (1642-1648)

22 mars 2024 | 36 min

Fleeing the Irish Rebellion 1641 – Refugees’ experiences

15 mars 2024 | 34 min

How Scottish Presbyterians became so powerful in England

8 mars 2024 | 32 min

How Scots opposition irreparably damaged the King’s authority

1 mars 2024 | 31 min

Understanding the Importance of Scotland, Ireland and Wales

23 februari 2024 | 3 min

Historians’ evolving views of John Pym

16 februari 2024 | 14 min

John Pym (1584-1643) – Pivotal Parliamentary figure and opponent of the King

16 februari 2024 | 27 min

Was Cromwell’s inability to work with Parliament the greatest irony of the English Revolution?

9 februari 2024 | 23 min

Did Oliver Cromwell’s death make the Restoration inevitable?

2 februari 2024 | 20 min

Was Oliver Cromwell the defender of liberty or a tyrant?

26 januari 2024 | 19 min

1660 – The year the world changed, war ended and the King returned

19 januari 2024 | 31 min

1642 – The story of the year when the English Civil War began

12 januari 2024 | 37 min

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?

20 december 2023 | 20 min

Edward Sexby (1618-1658) – A comrade-in-arms

16 november 2023 | 10 min

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) – In the chair

16 november 2023 | 4 min

Henry Ireton (1611-1651) – Soldier and political thinker

16 november 2023 | 12 min

Thomas Rainborowe (1610-1648) – Romantic radical hero

16 november 2023 | 7 min

John Wildman (c1621-1693) – Remarkable and original

16 november 2023 | 12 min

The Putney Debates – A founding moment of British democracy

16 november 2023 | 35 min

The Interregnum and the unsuccessful quest for religious conformity

18 oktober 2023 | 34 min

Origins of the Civil Wars – The role of religion

18 oktober 2023 | 35 min

Divided by religion – Post-reformation Britain

18 oktober 2023 | 25 min

Religion and the Civil Wars – Introductory overview

18 oktober 2023 | 8 min

Trial of Charles I – What were the real objectives?

6 oktober 2023 | 38 min

Upside Down World – Exciting new free access programme for schools

29 september 2023 | 31 min

Rediscovering the stories of the wounded – The Battle of Naseby, 1645

18 september 2023 | 29 min

Two Hours that Changed the World – The Battle of Naseby, 1645

31 juli 2023 | 27 min

Forgotten voices – The ordinary people of the Civil Wars

24 juli 2023 | 28 min

Changing Sides – Turn Coats

21 juli 2023 | 29 min

Growing Up – Children’s Experiences

10 juli 2023 | 42 min

Revealing the forgotten voices of ordinary people – The Civil War Petitions Project

26 juni 2023 | 24 min

Mental trauma – These distracted times

19 juni 2023 | 36 min

Why was Charles I executed?

12 juni 2023 | 25 min

Why did Royalists lose the Civil War?

12 juni 2023 | 25 min

How far was Charles I responsible for causing the Civil War?

12 juni 2023 | 25 min

History of Parliament

2 juni 2023 | 32 min

Causes, Conflicts, Consequences – The Historians Debate

1 juni 2023 | 14 min

Consequences – Political upheaval & constitutional change 1649-1660

1 juni 2023 | 34 min

Conflicts – Fighting the British Civil Wars 1642-1649

1 juni 2023 | 36 min

Causes – Why did war break out in 1642?

1 juni 2023 | 28 min

Step-by-step Guide – Understanding the Civil Wars

18 maj 2023 | 2 min

Trailer – Introducing The World Turned Upside Down

4 maj 2023 | 2 min

Step-by-step Guide – Understanding the Civil Wars

Senaste avsnitt

Oliver Cromwell’s western design

Britain’s astonishing revolutionary decade

Bastion of Royalism – Cornwall in the civil wars

The Battle of Langport, Somerset July 1645

1645-1646 Parliamentary victories and the end of the war

The second Battle of Newbury – 27th October 1644

1644 – The pivotal year

The battle of Edgehill – 23rd October 1642

The first year of civil war

Sentencing a King to death – judge John Bradshawe

Outbreak of civil war in England – The importance of Ireland and Scotland

Seizing property of Royalists

The daily life of a soldier

Creating a fighting army

The realities of ‘a womb big with miseries’

Parliament and the slave trade – The Interregnum years

A family at war – Lord and Lady Brooke of Warwick

Women in the english civil wars

Remembering the Civil Wars – The fraught story of commemoration

Split – The New Model Army versus Parliament – The Saffron Walden debates

Women and Cromwell’s Navy – The hidden story

Cromwell’s Navy – The civil wars at sea

The European context – The British Civil Wars and the 30 years war

Royalist conspiracy – the story of the Sealed Knot

She-Intelligencers – Women and espionage in the British Civil Wars

“A war of trenches, ramparts, palisades, bombardments and blockades”- Fortress warfare

The surprising story of peacemaking during the English civil wars

Oliver Cromwell’s House of Lords

Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate – A genuine revolution or a drift back to traditional government?

The General who made the Restoration possible – General Monck

Controversy – Oliver Cromwell in Ireland (1649-1650)

Living through civil war sieges in Newark – the civilian experience

Witch-hunting in revolutionary England

The Civil War Memorials Project – Battlefields Trust

The last days of the Republic – The return of the King – Part 2

The last days of the Republic – The fall of Richard Cromwell – Part 1

The importance of radicalism in the 1640s

New understandings of Charles I kingship

Killing the New Model Army – The fate of Cromwell’s old soldiers 1660-1685

Creating new civil war resources for schools – Best practice

Ruling without Parliament – Charles I

Multitudes of hands – The power of petitioning in seventeenth-century England

Prince Rupert’s burning love of England, discovered in Birmingham’s flames

The making of Oliver Cromwell – His early years

Were the Commonwealth and the Protectorate doomed from the start?

The bloodiest battle – Marston Moor (2nd July 1644)

Yorkshire in the Civil Wars – A bloody strategic battleground

Uncovering a ‘forgotten’ massacre at Shelford House

Raids, skirmishes and sieges – How the Civil War was fought

‘The Christian Centurion’ – Sergeant-Major-General Philip Skippon

‘Black Tom’ – Sir Thomas Fairfax, Creator and Commander of the New Model Army

Taken for a Soldier – Conscript or Volunteer?

1647 – A year of tumultuous and unstable ‘peace’

‘Yet One Warning More, to Thee O England’ – Quakers and the Restoration, 1660-1689

‘Light Risen Out of Darkness’ – The Civil Wars and Early Quakers, 1646-1660

1641 Depositions Project – Lessons for todays divided world

The Irish Rebellion 1641 – Sorting the facts from the fake news

John Poyer – Starting the second civil war in Wales

The Civil War encapsulated in a single siege

Beyond England’s Borders – Wales Besieged (1642-1648)

Fleeing the Irish Rebellion 1641 – Refugees’ experiences

How Scottish Presbyterians became so powerful in England

How Scots opposition irreparably damaged the King’s authority

Understanding the Importance of Scotland, Ireland and Wales

Historians’ evolving views of John Pym

John Pym (1584-1643) – Pivotal Parliamentary figure and opponent of the King

Was Cromwell’s inability to work with Parliament the greatest irony of the English Revolution?

Did Oliver Cromwell’s death make the Restoration inevitable?

Was Oliver Cromwell the defender of liberty or a tyrant?

1660 – The year the world changed, war ended and the King returned

1642 – The story of the year when the English Civil War began

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?

Edward Sexby (1618-1658) – A comrade-in-arms

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) – In the chair

Henry Ireton (1611-1651) – Soldier and political thinker

Thomas Rainborowe (1610-1648) – Romantic radical hero

John Wildman (c1621-1693) – Remarkable and original

The Putney Debates – A founding moment of British democracy