Season 3 · Episode 43
03.43 - Between Darkness and Light
The Second Protectorate Parliament sits. Someone tries to blow up Cromwell.
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
July 15, 202529m 28s
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Show Notes
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The Second Protectorate Parliament meets, and the Major-Generals purge a third of the MPs before it even begins. Royalists and Levellers conspire to assassinate Lord Protector Cromwell. Thoughts turn towards a new royal dynasty.
- Alice Hunt, Republic, 2024.
- Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.
- Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.
- Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.
- Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.
- Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic, 2020.
- Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.
- Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022.
- Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire, 2017.
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