Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

The unpopular Cessation of Arms divides the Protestant forces in Ireland, and nowhere was this division clearer than in the province of Munster. Lord Inchiquin dramatically declared his defection from the king, to parliament, but he has different priorities to his subordinate, Lord Broghill.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660. Harris, T. Rebellion Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution 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 For a full bibliography, see the podcast website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, faces humiliation on multiple fronts. His critics are uniting, his prosecutions are falling, and the ruinous cost of hiring him suddenly seems less worthwhile.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateThis episode primarily makes use of the following texts:- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002- Peter Elmer, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)- Gaskill, Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Levack, Brian (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, (2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We see the result of the Witchfinder General's efforts in the summer assizes of Chelmsford and Bury St. Edmunds. One was headed by the Earl of Warwick, a noble with little in the way of legal training, and the other by a triumvirate of two priests and a lawyer. One goes exceptionally well for the witchfinders, and the other... not so much.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateThis episode primarily makes use of the following texts:- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old grudges and fears come to the fore in Essex, as word spreads that witch-finders roam.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateListen to the History of EnglandCharity for Ukraine:Disasters Emergency CommitteeUK Government GuidanceAmnesty InternationalThis episode primarily makes use of the following texts:- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Hopkins, the infamous Witch-Finder General, begins his campaign through south-eastern England, as we discuss the opening accusations of the greatest and deadliest witch hunt in English history.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateThis episode primarily makes use of the following texts:- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002- Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, did not exist in a vacuum. How could this man, who had no formal authority, tour South-East England and not only execute hundreds of 'witches', but find cheering crowds and grateful magistrates waiting for him? Today's episode will examine the possible reasons why the Hopkins witch craze was so exceptional in its scale and brutality.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateThis episode primarily made use of the following texts:- Gaskill, Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Levack, B. P. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (Oxford, 2013)- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002- Elmer, Peter,Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, (Oxford, 2016)- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time."Listen here: https://pod.link/HistoryDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opechancanough, paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy, launches another surprise attack on Virginia.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateCheck out Why Tho? A Personal Journey Through my Record Collection: https://pod.link/1581184036For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Pestana, Carla, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661, Harvard University Press, 2007 Pestana, Carla, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World Montgomery, Dennis. 1607: Jamestown and the New World, Billings, Warren M., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century : A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent Jr., William G. Shade, Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607–2007 Adams, Lars C. '"The Battle of Weyanoke Creek": A Story of the Third Anglo-Powhatan War in Early Carolina.' Native South 6 (2013) Treaty Ending the Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1646): https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/treaty-ending-the-third-anglo-powhatan-war-1646/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Civil War back home, England's colonies do their best to stay out of it.Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Richard Middleton, Colonial America Winthrop, John, A History of New England Pestana, Carla, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World Pestana, Carla, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 Moore, Susan Hardman, Pilgrims: New World Settlers & the Call of Home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out the podcast websiteCheck out Pax Britannica Merch!Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | DonateFor this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful: Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660. Hill, J. Michael. “Killiecrankie and the Evolution of Highland Warfare.” War in History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1994, Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51 Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices