Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

03.01 - The English Revolution

Aug 20, 2023

27:24

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