S8 Ep337: THE PERSONAL RULE OF CHARLES I AND THE SLIDE TOWARD REBELLION Colleague Jonathan Healey. Tensions rise as lawyer Edward Coke champions the Petition of Right against Charles I's arbitrary imprisonment and taxation. After the Duke of Buckingham is assassina
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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1680 CHARLES II
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| 0:34.4 | with Indeed. I'm John john baxter visiting with jonathan healy and a social |
| 0:42.9 | professor of history social history at oxford university most importantly the author of a book |
| 0:48.1 | i highly recommend to understand where america comes from the blazing world a new history of Revolutionary England, 1603 to 1689, to my reading as an |
| 0:59.2 | amateur, the cases and the presentations and the passions in Jonathan's book will reappear |
| 1:06.2 | as if by magic in the founders of the United States of America. |
| 1:11.6 | And the arguments that are in the 17th century are still with us. |
| 1:15.5 | I understand we've done a deal of learning since then, but the same idea of regents versus |
| 1:23.0 | the people and what is the correct way to govern. |
| 1:27.2 | Is it for the safety of the people? Is it for the |
| 1:30.4 | absolute power of the king? Is it somewhere in between? We go now to Charles I, a young |
| 1:36.8 | region, and his most important minister is the man he went dashing off to Spain with, Buckingham, |
| 1:43.3 | who's in charge of the fleet. |
| 1:45.3 | And yet that matter of money causes again and again the problems with Charles's early days of Charles's reign. |
| 1:53.2 | He's trying to deal with Parliament. |
| 1:55.5 | A deal here, I noted Edward Koch is still with us. |
| 1:58.9 | He's a very aged man at this point. |
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