The Road to Civil War: Class Conflict and Constitutional Crisis in Stuart England, 1603-1650
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
00:00
Ireland and Scotland - A Throwback to the Middle Ages
Scots, which is actually just a northern dialect of english, became the main language in those lowland towns. And the lowlands became protestant. Rit of the scottish church was seized by a group of reformers called the lords of the congregation in edinburgh and reformed to become a calvinist presbyterian church. So scotland was ready divided by the time king james came to power. There. Ireland was also severely divided and a terribly unequal society. You had a divide between the elite and the peasantry. The elites were mostly of english or norman extraction originally. And they were mostly protestant. Not all, they were largely protestant.
Transcript
Play full episode
