431a Afterlives

The History of England

David Crowther

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

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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One of two self indulgent episodes to usher out the first phase of the English revolution, this episode is about the fates of some of those people in whose companies we have lived for some time, and what happened to them after the Restoration. This includes, of course, the Regicides, and we'll see some of those strung up while we are at it.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the history of England, episode 431A,
0:24.2	Afterlives. This fortnight feels like a historic moment. These two shortish episodes are my
0:32.3	last publishing forange, the first phase of the English Revolution, 1640 to 1689. That, ladies and gentlemen,
0:41.5	is just a plot spoiler to point out that there will be more trouble coming along. This is
0:46.0	unfinished business. And this next time, it will be glorious. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more,
0:53.7	say them all, say no more.
0:56.0	Anywho, I have two final jobs to do.
0:59.6	One of them is to part company with some of the folks at whose side we were standing.
1:03.6	When the restoration balloon went up, finish off their stories a wee bit,
1:08.2	waved to them from the key as they sail out to the sea of historical oblivion with a hanky and a tear.
1:15.9	The other task, which I'll do next time, is to ask,
1:20.2	did it achieve anything? Did it change anything?
1:24.2	Did it amount to a hill of beans or not? After all, the poet John Dryden, who was a parliamentarian in
1:31.8	the 1640s, wrote in a play in the 1670s that,
1:35.8	Thy wars brought nothing about. Now, I figured some of you might not be interested in one or the
1:43.2	other of these topics, or indeed neither.
1:45.9	So I put them into two shorter episodes instead of one episode.
1:51.7	Also, I should issue the warning that neither of them take us chronologically forward through our story of England, not a step, narrowing a shuffle.
2:00.5	So you can just skip one or both of them
2:02.9	and you will not miss out chronologically. Odd? Possibly. But that's the way I did it. So there we go.
2:11.1	Now this episode is the most self-indulgent one, my chance to say goodbye to all those people in whose
2:17.3	company I spent so much time. What goodbye to all those people in whose company I spent so much time.
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