Was the Restoration inevitable? Should Oliver Cromwell have made himself King? What was the role of ritual in Cromwell’s premiership? How did Thomas Hobbs’ “Leviathan” lead to Royalist reconciliation? And what are the similarities between Keir Starmer and Oliver Cromwell?
In this week’s bonus episode, Dominic is joined by historian and erstwhile tutorial partner, Alice Hunt. They discuss her new book “Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660”, a story documenting England’s unique republican experiment when the world turned upside down…
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Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated twice weekly
- Published22 October 2024 at 23:00 UTC
- RatingClean