The Glorious Revolution: everything you wanted to know
History Extra podcast
Immediate Media
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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How did James II’s replacement by William of Orange as king of England, Scotland and Ireland change the course of British history? Ted Vallance responds to listener questions about the 1688 Glorious Revolution
In the latest in our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, historian Ted Vallance responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688, which saw William of Orange ousting James II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland
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| 1:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best-selling |
| 1:07.0 | History magazine. I'm Millie Corthorn. Today we've got the latest in our everything you wanted |
| 1:21.3 | in no series, in which we explore a subject through questions you've sent in on social media |
| 1:26.8 | and popular internet search queries. Today we're speaking about the glorious revolution of 1688 |
| 1:33.2 | with Ted Valens, Professor of History at the University of Roe Hampton. Ted's books include |
| 1:40.4 | the glorious revolution 1688, Britain's Fight for Liberty, and a radical history of Britain. |
| 1:47.9 | He's also contributed numerous features to BBC History magazine over the years. |
| 1:52.9 | Putting your questions to Ted was our production editor, Spencer Mism. |
| 1:57.0 | Ted, I thought I'd kick off this interview with one of the top ranking queries among internet |
| 2:03.8 | searches. It's quite a wide range in question but a good seam setter I think. And that question is, |
| 2:12.0 | what was the glorious revolution? Can you talk us through the milestones in this act of regime change? |
| 2:19.0 | Yes, so the glorious revolution is the series of events that leads up to the replacement of James |
| 2:29.5 | II, who's the Catholic as reigning king with his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William, |
| 2:38.3 | who is the Dutch stadholder, Dutch leader, they become joint monarchs in place of James in 1689. |
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