At the heart of this story is the enigmatic Oliver Cromwell. Politician, general, figurehead of Puritanism and ultimately Lord Protector of England, Cromwell was the architect of both the regicide that cost Charles Stuart his life and the republican regime that followed.

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With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
Script: Catherine Tourangeau
Editing: DeadWill

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00:00 Introduction
01:41 Oliver Cromwell and early 17th century England
04:39 Oliver Cromwell, MP and gentleman farmer
07:15 On the road to civil war!
09:30 Cromwell: from the Long Parliament to the New Model Army
11:54 The Commonwealth and the Republican Experience, 1649-1660
17:00 End and Legacy
18:48 Closing

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For further:
David Cressy, Dangerous Talk. Scandalous, Seditious and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England (Oxford, 2010)

Mark Knights, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain (Oxford, 2005)

Jason Peacey: "News, Politics and People, 1603-1714." State Papers Online 1603-1714, Cengage Learning EMEA Ltd, 2010.

Steven Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale University Press, 2009)

Steven Pincus, '"Coffee politicians does create": coffeehouses and Restoration political culture', Journal of Modern History, 67 (1995), pp. 807-34.

J. Raymond, The Invention of the Newspaper. English Newsbooks, 1641-1649 (Oxford, 1996)


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