The World Turned Upside Down - The British Civil Wars 1638-1651
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How did the landscape shape Civil War battle Naseby 1645?
Jun 26, 2026
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Royalist Experiences of the Sieges of Newark-on-Trent
Jun 5, 2026
30m 51s
William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle – The foremost Royalist General?
May 29, 2026
35m 51s
Piracy an Empire – Divorcing fact from fiction
May 22, 2026
32m 54s
Nurturing civil war – Politics, religion and the textile industry
May 15, 2026
39m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/26/26 |  How did the landscape shape Civil War battle Naseby 1645? | What was the landscape of rural England like, over which many of the battles of the Civil Wars were fought? How did these fields and woods shape the armies’ tactics and influence the outcomes of battles such as Naseby which would alter British, and even World, history? And how different is the remaining rural landscape ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 |  Royalist Experiences of the Sieges of Newark-on-Trent✨ | British Civil WarsRoyalist experiences+3 | — | — | Newark-on-TrentNottinghamshire | Royalistsieges+3 | — | 30m 51s | |
| 5/29/26 |  William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle – The foremost Royalist General?✨ | British Civil WarsRoyalist Generals+4 | — | Royalist | England | William CavendishDuke of Newcastle+3 | — | 35m 51s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Piracy an Empire – Divorcing fact from fiction✨ | piracyEuropean maritime empires+4 | — | Piracy an Empire | Europeseventeenth and eighteenth centuries | piracyEuropean empires+5 | — | 32m 54s | |
| 5/15/26 |  Nurturing civil war – Politics, religion and the textile industry✨ | civil warpolitics+4 | — | Kinggovernment | — | civil warpolitics+6 | — | 39m 01s | |
| 5/7/26 |  Thomas Harrison (1616-1660) – Fifth monarchist and unrepentant regicide✨ | British Civil WarsInterregnum+3 | — | Parliamentary Army | — | Thomas HarrisonBritish Civil Wars+5 | — | 34m 51s | |
| 5/1/26 |  Blood in the winter – descent into civil war✨ | civil warpolitical tension+3 | — | — | England | civil warEngland+5 | — | 35m 42s | |
| 4/24/26 |  The Quakers and the power of print✨ | Quaker movementprint media+3 | — | Quakerpamphlets | Britain | Quakersprint+3 | — | 34m 56s | |
| 4/17/26 |  Military welfare in Yorkshire revealed✨ | military welfareBritish Civil Wars+3 | Professor Andrew Hopper | Civil War Petitions Project | Yorkshire | military welfareBritish Civil Wars+4 | — | 34m 45s | |
| 4/10/26 |  The wars of the five peoples – Ethnicity during the civil wars✨ | British Civil Warsethnicity+4 | — | Wars of the Three Kingdoms | ScotlandIreland+1 | British Civil Warsethnicity+3 | — | 43m 30s | |
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| 3/27/26 |  Life in the Royalist Capital – the Oxford Experience✨ | Royalist war effortOxford+4 | Vanessa Emmett | Kellogg CollegeUniversity of Oxford | OxfordEngland | OxfordRoyalist+5 | — | 32m 22s | |
| 3/20/26 |  Understanding the conquest and occupation of Scotland✨ | Scottish historyBritish monarchy+4 | — | — | ScotlandBritain | Charles IScotland+4 | — | 35m 35s | |
| 3/13/26 |  Making the Protectorate the strongest naval power of the age – Robert Blake (1598-1657)✨ | naval historyBritish Civil Wars+3 | — | modern navy | Britain | Robert Blakenavy+4 | — | 37m 15s | |
| 2/27/26 |  Charles II – The years in exile✨ | exileBritish Civil Wars+4 | — | — | — | Charles IIexile+4 | — | 36m 30s | |
| 2/18/26 |  Duels, violence and conflict✨ | violenceearly modern Europe+3 | Professor Stuart Carroll | University of York | England | duelsviolence+4 | — | 29m 38s | |
| 2/12/26 |  Controversy – Was Charles I responsible for his own downfall? | Historians of the British and Irish Civil Wars have repeatedly asked to what extent was Charles I responsible for his own downfall and consequently, the failure of the monarchy? In this programme, Jacqueline Eales, Emerita Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University, traces how the King’s intransigence repeatedly undermined potential supporters who ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 |  Pride’s Purge – Radically shifting the balance of power | On 6 December 1648, Pride’s Purge marked a watershed moment in the English Revolution. By arresting some MPs and preventing others from sitting, the New Model Army seized political power. Now the Army, rather than Parliament, would dictate the future settlement of England. The exclusion of the more moderate MPs ensured that a hard line ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 11/7/25 |  Paying for the New Model Army | The formation of the New Model Army placed a significant burden on every taxpayer in England at a time when wartime devastation, disruption of trade and a series of poor harvests was already causing hardship across Britain. According to the Army’s detractors, the country could simply not afford to pay a cost equivalent to over ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 10/31/25 |  Fiery spirits – Protestors on the edge of civil war | In the years leading up to the outbreak of Civil War, very few would have predicted that England would become a Republic. But in Parliament, one MP, Henry Marten (1602 – 1680) who was returned for Berkshire in the Short and Long Parliaments, became an early and outspoken champion for republicanism and subsequently for the ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 10/24/25 |  Brilliana Harley – A woman of faith and substance | Brilliana Harley was one of the heroines of the British and Irish civil wars. A deeply religious woman, in her husband’s absence, Brilliana successfully held off a royalist siege of her family home at Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire for three months during 1643. During these weeks she vividly described these events and even rejected a ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 10/17/25 |  How did the civil wars alter the British diet? | Dr Mark Dawson has conducted extensive research into food and drink in the early modern period. In this programme, he reveals that this period saw a fundamental and irreversible evolution of the foods widely consumed by families at all levels of society. Production and consumption of fruit and vegetables increased while soldiers began to eat ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 10/10/25 |  Devil-Land – England under siege | Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as “Devil-Land”; a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by Rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. It was a place troubled by continual crisis. England was seen by continental neighbours as a “failed state”; endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 9/26/25 |  Although most modern historians consider Cromwell’s religious faith and beliefs to be sincere, several contemporaries considered him to be a religious hypocrite, so which viewpoint is correct? | During his lifetime, many of Oliver Cromwell’s contemporaries – supports as well as critics – questioned the sincerity of his often-stated belief that he was doing God’s work. Today most historians consider that Cromwell was being sincere, some other remain sceptical. At the Cromwell Association’s Schools History Conference, leading academics, Professor Peter Gaunt of the University ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 9/26/25 |  At what point did the execution of the king become inevitable, during his trial in January 1649 or much earlier than that? | One of the most frequently debated questions of the British and Irish Civil Wars has been, “At what point did the execution of Charles I become inevitable?”. Some historians maintain that the King’s fate was only decided during the trial in Westminster Hall while others argue that his fate was sealed well before Charles was ... Read more | — | ||||||
| 9/26/25 |  Did parliament win the main civil war of 1642-46 through the possession of better resources or did the royalists lose it because of military blunders? | The first session of the Cromwell Association Annual School’s History Conference addresses a critically important and frequently debated question: “Did Parliament win the Civil War of 1642 – 1646?”. Was it because it possessed more resources as Professor Andrew Hopper of the University of Oxford argues or, as Professor Emirates Peter Gaunt suggest, Royalist military ... Read more | — | ||||||
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