S8 Ep337: THE RESTORATION AND THE BLAZING WORLD Colleague Jonathan Healey. Seeking stability after political chaos, England invites Charles II to return in 1660. The Restoration maintains parliamentary taxation power but brings a severe Anglican religious reaction
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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1669 ALLEGORY OF BEHEADING CHARLES I
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| 0:39.5 | oxford university his new book is the blazing world a new history of revolutionary england 1603 |
| 0:45.7 | to 1689 the themes the arguments the statements the risks all here in the 17th century |
| 0:52.5 | that will be echoed by the founding fathers in the 18th century in America. |
| 0:58.0 | And much of the contest today between the people and their representatives, |
| 1:05.0 | and in America, the President, we can see very much consistent with the doubts and the dreams of the men who led |
| 1:14.2 | to a regicide, the cutting off of the head of Charles I, and then to the Lord Protector, |
| 1:21.1 | Oliver Cromwell, a farmer from East Anglia, who dies in September of 1659, I believe, 1658. |
| 1:30.3 | And the question of succession is not present. |
| 1:36.3 | At some point they figured maybe his eldest son Richard, that didn't work out because Richard turned out to be a very friendly, popular |
| 1:44.9 | person but no Lord Protector. So now we turn to Parliament. Who is to be next? And Jonathan, |
| 1:52.7 | this is a fascination because everything that was enforced during Parliament's time, during |
| 1:59.8 | Oliver Cromwell's time and before by the Puritans, |
| 2:03.3 | now is to be tossed out with the bathwater. Everything is to go out again. And Charles II, |
| 2:10.7 | who's been living in exile, comes back. The first thought I have is, why did they invite him back? |
| 2:17.0 | Did they know the risks they were taking? |
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