52. Civil War Coming! Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast we’re teetering on the brink of a war that would rip the three kingdoms apart.
In what is one of the most significant moments in Scottish history the National Covenant was born. King Charles I of England and Scotland, an imperious and domineering monarch, went heat to head with the Presbyterian Scots who were in no mood to listen to new ideas, not even from a king.
Riots and rebellion swept the country and the King found himself at war with the nation. A resounding clash of religious faiths, a ground-breaking document, rebellion and a blood-soaked island.
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| 0:51.9 | episode of my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 0:55.0 | Q the music. So the Scots were saying absolutely not over our dead bodies literally. |
| 1:19.0 | In this podcast, we're standing shoulder to shoulder with people of unshakable faith in one of the most significant moments in Scottish history, an imperious and domineering monarch determined to have |
| 1:26.5 | his own way, riots and rebellion sweeping the country and the National Covenant was born. |
| 1:37.0 | In the blood-soaked decades that followed, the king lost his head. |
| 1:44.0 | But with the restoration of the monarchy, his son King Charles II set about finishing the job, |
| 1:50.0 | hounding, torturing, and killing every covenanter he could find. |
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