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02.13 - ‘The Root of All Our Calamities’
Season 2 · Episode 13

02.13 - ‘The Root of All Our Calamities’

The Long Parliament gathers, and they take aim at Laud and Strafford.

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

January 12, 202126m 35s

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Show Notes

After the disaster of the Second Bishops' War, the English Parliament gathers once again. Prisoners are released, and new ones take their place - Archbishop William Laud, and Thomas Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford.


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

  • 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
  • Smith, David, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689

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