Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

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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

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

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. 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

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 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 David Como, Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War Conrad Russell, The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637-1642 Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 David Smith, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 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. Harris, T. Rebellion 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 David Como, Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War Conrad Russell, The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637-1642 Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Armies clash at Newbury, and the king signs a truce with the Irish ConfederacyCheck 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 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 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 Joseph Cope, ‘The Irish Rising’, in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's often overshadowed by the English Revolution, but the Scottish Covenanters achieved their own revolution between 1637 and 1644. Or did they?Thank you to all those who agreed to be interviewed for the series!Dr Andrew LindDr Chris LangleyDr Karie SchultzDr Mikki BrockDr Kirsteen MacKenzieProfessor Julian GoodareDr Louise YeomanDr Sharon AdamsProfessor Laura StewartDr Alan MacDonaldDr Claire McNultyProfessor Allan MacInnesDr Allan Kennedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices