The World Turned Upside Down - The British Civil Wars 1638-1651
Welcome to exciting new weekly podcasts from top historians, all about the British Civil Wars.
The World Turned Upside Down
Show overview
The World Turned Upside Down - The British Civil Wars 1638-1651 has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 134 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 70 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 36 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language History show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 23 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The World Turned Upside Down.
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Welcome to exciting new weekly podcasts from top historians, all about the British Civil Wars.
Latest Episodes
View all 134 episodesThe road to Worcester – ending the Civil War
Norwich’s ‘Great Blow’ of 1648
War comes to England’s largest provincial city – Norwich
Colchester 1648 – Eleven weeks of brutal and bloody siege
Everyday informing in revolutionary England
Remembering the English Revolution – Impact and consequences
How did the landscape shape Civil War battle Naseby 1645?
Royalist Experiences of the Sieges of Newark-on-Trent
Law, civil war and gentry – The trials of Edward Vaghan revealed
William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle – The foremost Royalist General?
Piracy an Empire – Divorcing fact from fiction
Nurturing civil war – Politics, religion and the textile industry
Thomas Harrison (1616-1660) – Fifth monarchist and unrepentant regicide
Blood in the winter – descent into civil war
The Quakers and the power of print
Military welfare in Yorkshire revealed
The wars of the five peoples – Ethnicity during the civil wars
From the 1990s, the approaches of revisionist historians to the Civil Wars did much to recast the series of conflicts as ‘the Wars of the Three Kingdoms’. These historians stressed the importance of events in Scotland and Ireland in bringing about the eventual outbreak of Civil War in England. But the Civil Wars were not ... Read more
Life in the Royalist Capital – the Oxford Experience
In this programme, Vanessa Emmett, a doctoral student in English Local History at Kellogg College at the University of Oxford, discusses the contribution of Oxford’s citizens to the Royalist war effort between 1642 and 1646. When King Charles I and his court arrived in Oxford to take up residence in November 1642, he was welcomed by ... Read more
Understanding the conquest and occupation of Scotland
Much has been written and discussed about the effects of the execution of Charles I on the future history of England. But its impact on Scotland has often received less attention. Yet, within a week of the death of Charles I, his son had been declared not just King of Scotland, but King of Britain ... Read more
Making the Protectorate the strongest naval power of the age – Robert Blake (1598-1657)
The military histories of the British and Irish Civil Wars largely focus on the land-based conflict, while the critical strategic importance of the wars at sea is often ignored or downplayed. Yet this was the period when the foundations were laid of the modern navy which gave Britain global maritime supremacy for centuries to come. ... Read more