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The History of England

416 Acts of Settlement and War

The History of England

David Crowther

Royal, Queen, Europe, Modern, Parliament, History, Monarchy, Early Modern, Medieval, English, England, King, Politics

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The English Commonwealth took a very different approach to settling the threats which had faced it in 1649, and the future of the three kingdoms. In Ireland, the guiding principle was retribution; in Scotland some effort at least of collaboration. To a new threat the response was uncompromising - it was war.

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0:00.0

You've stopped someone carrying a large amount of drugs.

0:04.0

He's just a teenager. He's exhausted, scared, not giving you his name, where he's from or where he's going.

0:14.0

He's broken the law, but maybe he really needs your help.

0:18.0

So how'd you get him talking?

0:20.0

If you think you could be a regular or volunteer police constable, such Met careers, change needs empathy.

0:28.0

Change needs you. Hello everyone and welcome back to the history of England episode 416 acts of settlement

0:57.4

acts of war now look this is interesting I feel the need to explain why I fully intend for this episode

1:05.3

to be a bit of a dog's breakfast. And the words of that much love Canadian, Huey Green,

1:10.3

I mean that most sincerely. Anyone who remembers that cultural reference, pick up a gold style with your pension book.

1:17.0

So it's going to be a rather bidding and bobbing sort of episode.

1:20.0

We'll go to Ireland, then to Scotland, and then to the cold waters of the channel

1:24.7

and the North Sea where we will get fighty.

1:28.2

The reason for this, because I feel the need to explain as I say, is that one of the irritating

1:32.1

things about Oliver Cromwell's history, apart from his

1:34.8

wart obviously, is that he gets lumped with a load of things that are variously nothing to do with him at all, like Christmas

1:41.5

cancelling, only partially to do with him such as iconocasms

1:45.6

because Cromwell himself wasn't an iconoclast and then there is all the true stuff.

1:51.2

So I am determined to give all of you that peerless opportunity to pull people

1:56.9

up in the pub or a dinner party or a social media and say whatever and say,

2:01.2

and say, stop right there, you're going to know right now.

2:05.0

So today, we together we'll make sure that we render under the rumpers that which is the rumpers and carry the story of the Rump to 1653 when if you all forgive

2:16.2

me a plot spoiler its existence will come into question nudge a nudge wink wink

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