Pax Britannica is a narrative history podcast covering the empire upon which the sun never set. Beginning with the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, Pax Britannica will follow the people and events that created an empire that dominated the globe. Hosted by a PhD candidate in British Imperial history, and based on extensive scholarship and primary sources, along with interviews with experts in their field, Pax Britannica aims to explain the rise and eventual fall of the largest empire in history. After all, how peaceful was the 'British Peace'?
Listen Now: Even the Royals
Admit it: you’re obsessed with royal families – watching them, gossiping about them, wanting to be them. It’s the stuff of fantasy. But for real life royals, the crown jewels can be more like shiny handcuffs. There are expectations and rules – and if you break them, the consequences are big, and very public. And there are royal families and wild royal tales from around the world and throughout history that you have never heard before.
Even the Royals is a new podcast from Wondery that takes you inside the cloistered world of royal families, past and present, where wealth and status often come at the expense of your freedom – and maybe even your life. In these stories, very human emotions, like jealousy, love, disgust, have the power to reshape the world.
This is just a preview of Even the Royals. You can listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at Wondery.fm/royals_paxbritannica.
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2/21/2024 • 8 minutes, 49 seconds
03.13 - The Tory War
After the defeat of the Royalist coalition, the last military resistance to the Commonwealth in Ireland are irregular Tories - isolated, cut off from the chain of command, thousands of veteran Irish fights live off the land, establish bases in bogs and hills, and hit the English occupation forces wherever they can. The Commonwealth goes to extreme lengths to crush them.
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Sarah Barber, ‘Settlement, Transplantation and Expulsion: A Comparative Study of the Placement of Peoples’, in British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland, ed. by Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
Elaine Murphy, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Jason Peacey, John Morril, eds. The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Crmwell: Volume II, 2022.
David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
Micheál Ó Siochrú, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
Micheál Ó Siochrú, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
Micheál Ó Siochrú, God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland.
Micheál Ó Siochrú, 'Atrocity, Codes of Conduct and the Irish in the British Civil Wars 1641-1653', Past & Present , 195 (May, 2007), pp. 55-86
Pádraig Lenihan, Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727 (England: Pearson, 2008).
Pádraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001
Pádraig Lenihan, 'Siege Massacres in Ireland: Drogheda in Context', in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives
Wheeler, James Scott, 'Ormond and Cromwell: The Struggle for Ireland', in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives
Martyn Bennett, ‘God’s Wall of Brass: Cromwell’s Generals in Ireland, 1649-1650’ in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives
Derek Hirst, ‘Security and Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649-1658’, in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution.
R. Scott Spurlock, ‘Cromwell and Catholics: Towards a Reassessment of Lay Catholic Experience in Interregnum Ireland’, in Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600-1800, ed. by Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest, Irish Historical Monographs (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010).
Wells, Jennifer, ‘Proceedings at the High Court of Justice at Dublin and Cork 1652-1654, part 2’, Archivium Hibernicum, 67, 76-274.
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12/17/2023 • 27 minutes, 18 seconds
Bonus - The Denbigh House of Cards
The final attempt at compromise with Charles I was a secret mission by the earl of Denbigh, but the king famously denied it. Or did he?
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10/1/2023 • 18 minutes, 49 seconds
Trailer - Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
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8/20/2023 • 2 minutes, 29 seconds
Bonus - Grey History: The French Revolution
The first episode of the Grey History Podcast. Go to https://greyhistory.com/ to find out more, or find it on your favourite podcast app.
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8/13/2023 • 42 minutes, 35 seconds
Bonus - The Blazing World with Dr Jonathan Healey
I speak with Jonathan Healey, author of the new book 'The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England'
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6/22/2023 • 45 minutes, 39 seconds
Bonus - The Great Defiance with Dr David Veevers
I speak with Dr David Veevers, author of The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire.
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5/24/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 8 seconds
Pax Recommends: History Daily
"On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time."
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3/23/2022 • 35 minutes, 44 seconds
ScotRev | Was there a Scottish Revolution?
It's often overshadowed by the English Revolution, but the Scottish Covenanters achieved their own revolution between 1637 and 1644. Or did they?
Thank you to all those who agreed to be interviewed for the series!
Dr Andrew Lind
Dr Chris Langley
Dr Karie Schultz
Dr Mikki Brock
Dr Kirsteen MacKenzie
Professor Julian Goodare
Dr Louise Yeoman
Dr Sharon Adams
Professor Laura Stewart
Dr Alan MacDonald
Dr Claire McNulty
Professor Allan MacInnes
Dr Allan Kennedy
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1/2/2022 • 37 minutes, 42 seconds
ScotRev | The Covenanters in Restoration Scotland with Dr Allan Kennedy
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History Scotland
Scottish Privy Council Project
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12/6/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 38 seconds
ScotRev | Gothic Revivalism and Covenanted Confederalism with Prof Allan MacInnes
I speak with Allan MacInnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde
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11/8/2021 • 45 minutes, 42 seconds
Bonus - Historical Fiction with Zack Twamley
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10/25/2021 • 38 minutes
ScotRev | Church Discipline in Revolutionary Edinburgh with Dr Claire McNulty
I speak with Dr Claire McNulty
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9/15/2021 • 34 minutes, 29 seconds
ScotRev | Maintaining the Covenanter Regime in Civil War Scotland with Dr Alan MacDonald
I speak with Dr Alan MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee
Dr MacDonald's Twitter: @estaitis
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4/15/2021 • 44 minutes, 51 seconds
ScotRev | Rethinking the Scottish Revolution with Prof. Laura Stewart
Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637-53
Union and Revolution: Scotland and Beyond, 1625-1745
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4/7/2021 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds
ScotRev | Scottish Republicanism and Anti-Monarchism with Dr Sharon Adams
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4/1/2021 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
ScotRev | Piety and Heartwork in Covenanter Scotland with Dr Louise Yeoman
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3/25/2021 • 1 hour, 55 seconds
02.17 - A Peaceful Land, A Quiet People?
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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:
Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed
Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660
Harris, T. Rebellion
M. Perceval-Maxwell, The Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion Of 1641
Jane Ohlmeyer, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Ireland, 1641: Contexts and Reactions
Micheál Ó Siochrú, God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
Tim Harris, Rebellion
Mark Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed
John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War
Joseph Cope, ‘The Irish Rising’, in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
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3/21/2021 • 30 minutes, 34 seconds
ScotRev | Defining Revolution with Prof. Julian Goodare
I discuss how we describe revolutions with Prof. Goodare
Prof. Goodare's Staff Profile
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3/18/2021 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 41 seconds
ScotRev | Covenanted Interests across Three Kingdoms with Dr Kirsteen MacKenzie
The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663: https://www.routledge.com/The-Solemn-League-and-Covenant-of-the-Three-Kingdoms-and-the-Cromwellian/Mackenzie/p/book/9781409418696
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3/11/2021 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 4 seconds
ScotRev | Protestantism, Revolution, and Scottish Political Thought with Dr Karie Schultz
The British School at Rome
Research in Scottish History Podcast
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2/25/2021 • 42 minutes, 17 seconds
ScotRev | The Kirk, the Covenanters, and the Revolution with Dr Chris Langley
The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 - Use code BB870 for a %40 discount
Mapping the Scottish Reformation
Dr Langley's Publications
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2/18/2021 • 50 minutes, 17 seconds
ScotRev | Scottish Royalism during the British Civil Wars with Dr Andrew Lind
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Battle in the Burgh: Glasgow during the British Civil Wars, c.1638-1651
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2/11/2021 • 40 minutes, 27 seconds
Bonus - The East India Company with Dr David Veevers
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1/14/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 5 seconds
Bonus - Cromwell's Protectorate with Paul Lay
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1/7/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 29 seconds
Bonus - Sir Thomas Fairfax by CavalierCast
In this episode, CavalierCast host Mark Turnbull speaks to 3 expert guests about the overshadowed Sir Thomas Fairfax, General of Parliament's New Model Army. Professor Andrew Hopper, Colonel Nick Lipscombe and MJ Logue discuss why he isn't better remembered, along with:
Fairfax's family, military experience and the events he shaped.
Reasons behind his appointment as General of the New Model Army.
How instrumental he was in Parliament's ultimate victory.
His 300 poems and poetic side.
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12/27/2020 • 47 minutes, 18 seconds
Bonus - The Ancient Britons by the Early Stuart England Podcast
A guest episode from the Early Stuart England Podcast! The King's Welsh subjects rally to his cause, turning the western borderlands into one of the key strategic theatres of the war.
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12/20/2020 • 40 minutes, 32 seconds
Bonus - The Philosophy of Empire
To understand the past, sometimes we need to examine our values and subject them to philosophical analysis. The British Empire was a complex, varied entity that stretched across the world and changed over the centuries. How do we understand the mindset of those people in the C19th who created it, or lived in it? This episode is designed to get you thinking and analysing big questions and unpleasant moral problems. Ultimately the answers will be down to your judgements. Be warned some material is upsetting and contains references to genocide, racism, slavery, the holocaust, abortion and critiques of religion. I hope you find it stimulating.
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10/18/2020 • 1 hour, 34 seconds
Bonus - The Sinking of the Arandora Star
This was the talk I gave at this year's Intelligent Speech conference. I follow three interned 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War, as the British Government arrested them. Their eventual fates were very different, but first they would all have to pass through the crucible of the Arandora Star.
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9/27/2020 • 42 minutes, 4 seconds
Bonus - The Pre-History of Maryland
Jared Books from A History of Maryland covers the winding background of the colony
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8/30/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 3 seconds
Bonus - For God or the Devil with Zachary Twamley
I talk with When Diplomacy Fails' Zack Twamley about his new book, For God or the Devil: A History of the Thirty Years War. We chat about how the conflict is remembered, and what he's learnt after returning to the topic after seven years.
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