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02.15 - The Root and Branch Reforms
Season 2 · Episode 15

02.15 - The Root and Branch Reforms

With Strafford gone, the Commons implement their reforms

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

February 7, 202126m 4s

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Show Notes

Now that the champions of Personal Rule have been dealt with, Parliament takes aim at the mechanisms which kept the Eleven Years Tyranny in force. Star Chamber and High Commission are on the chopping block, and the bishops themselves are at risk.


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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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