Season 8 · Episode 72
428 Make Haste to be Gone
The Protectorate loses its Protector
The History of England · David Crowther
March 23, 202536m 47s
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Show Notes
In 1658, the year started with hopeful clarity. There was a new constitution om a firmer footing, and a new parliament was about to sit. There was little sign any more of royalist rebellion, the Commonwealth name was feared and respected abroad and surely now the Protectorate could build from these foundations. But parliament displayed continuing division, and the Commonwealth was to lose the person around who it had been built
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