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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Oliver’s Army: Can Revolutionary England explain our modern mess?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In the 17th Century the English slaughtered one another, beheaded their king, fought bitterly over religion and politics, and acquired a taste for coffee and newspapers. Jonathan Healey, Associate Professor of Social History at the University of Oxford, tells Andrew Harrison how their world turned upside down shapes our own in his new book THE BLAZING WORLD: A New History of Revolutionary England. Includes Cromwell, cross-dressing, regicide, seditious libel, the New Model Army (not that one), the Levellers (not those), the ‘Blazing World’ itself (perhaps the first science fiction novel) and the Roundhead-Cavalier rivalry explained in terms of Half Man Half Biscuit…  • “During a ‘skimmington’ you could break all the rules and slag off politicians… you could turn the world upside down.” • “Catholics would hold cross dressing weddings to mock Protestants.” • “Punk takes its name from the 17th century slang for prostitute.” • “The tale of Guy Fawkes has lost all its violence.” Thif podcaft hath been written and uttered by Mafter Andrew Harrifon. Miftress Kafia Tomafiewicz did finely produce it and My Lord Jacob Jarvif was ye Lead Producer. Miftress Jade Bailiy did edit ye sounds within and divers idolatrous musicks were supplied by Mafter Kenny Dickinfon of far Manchester. “Lucifer over Lancashire!” We warrant that YE BUNKER is withal a Podmafterf Production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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seem to swear, blaspheme and drink too much. One only had to see the aftermath of

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the town fair and it looked like some battle had been forced. Here lies one man, there

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another. If this sounds like a daily mail report on a busy Saturday night in Newcastle, Liverpool

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or Manchester, it isn't, but you're on the right track. This is the England of the early 17th century,

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the years between the death of Elizabeth the first and the horrors of the civil war,

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the beginnings of a century when the country will be convulsed by religious hatreds

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and transformed by trade, science and new political ideas,

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when it would execute its own king, become a republic, and then change its mind.

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It's all documented in dazzling style in the blazing world a new history of

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