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02.11 - Hearts and Minds
Season 2 · Episode 11

02.11 - Hearts and Minds

The Covenanters and the Royalists continue their propaganda war

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

November 4, 202029m 41s

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Show Notes

With the Short Parliament dissolved, Charles raises a new army as best he can without English taxation. But across the kingdom, resentment and unrest spreads, and unpopular officers and Laudian churches face the consequences. Fanning the flames were an endless stream of Covenanter propaganda, circulated along Puritan networks and plastered across towns and cities, while the Royalists mount their own campaign for public opinion.


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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

  • Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions
  • Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War
  • Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed
  • Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660
  • Harris, T. Rebellion 
  • Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars
  • James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000
  • Smith, David, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689
  • 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

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