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Puritans and the Mayflower

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Stephen Tomkins discusses the rise of Puritanism in England and the origins of the Mayflower voyage to North America in 1620. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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bestselling history magazine.

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I'm Ellie Gawthorne.

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For today's podcast, I spoke to the author Stephen Tompkins.

1:02.4

Stephen has written widely on the history of Christianity,

1:05.4

and his latest book, The Journey to the Mayflower,

1:07.9

explores the rise of Puritanism in England.

1:13.9

I met Stephen in London to discuss how religious persecution forced dissidents to seek new lives abroad and eventually to head for North America.

1:17.9

2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower and your book tells the story

1:23.8

that leads up to that in terms of the emergence and evolution of Protestant

1:27.6

separatist movements in England, some of whose members then partook in that voyage.

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So to start us off in our conversation today, I wonder if you could tell us what the climate

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