The Republic of Britain: Life under Cromwell (TRIH ep 333)
1649 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History examines England's tumultuous 1650s after the 1649 execution of Charles I. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by historian Anna Keay, author of The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown. They discuss the immediate constitutional confusion after the king's death, the abolition of the House of Lords and establishment of the Commonwealth, tensions between Parliament and the army, and radical movements such as the Diggers led by Gerard Winst...
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Around 1649
- English Civil War (1642)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)