S8 Ep337: THE NEW MODEL ARMY AND THE REGICIDE Colleague Jonathan Healey. Parliament reorganizes its forces into the New Model Army under Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, prioritizing merit over social status. After defeating the Royalists at Naseby, political di
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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27TH CENTURY LONDON
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| 0:53.1 | Continuing with Associate Professor of Social History at Oxford University, Jonathan Healy. |
| 0:55.4 | His new book, The Blazing World, |
| 1:05.9 | is a new history of Revolutionary England, 1603 to 1689. It is now 1646. Charles I, the region of England and Ireland, this is everything we understand, the power of the king, surrenders to the Scots called |
| 1:12.7 | the Covenanters because he's being pursued by the New Model Army led by Thomas Fairfax and |
| 1:19.4 | Oliver Cromwell. Jonathan, we go immediately to the personalities of these leaders of the |
| 1:26.4 | new model army, because that will be determinative of this |
| 1:30.3 | regicide upon us what is the new model army and what is fairfax to it what is cromwell to it at |
| 1:37.7 | this point thank you well the new model army was the attempt by parliament to reorganise their forces because they had found |
| 1:47.8 | themselves in a sort of winning position in the Civil War that had taken place and then |
| 1:53.6 | they'd blown it, they'd made a mess of it, and they'd decided that part of the problem was that |
| 1:58.8 | the commanders, particularly the earls of Essex and the Earl of Manchester, |
| 2:02.6 | were not sufficiently committed to full victory. They wanted to sort of, you know, win the battles against the King and then go back to the negotiating table, |
| 2:09.6 | whereas actually what needed to be done was the King needed to be beaten completely in the battlefield. |
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