Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

With the downfall of Clarendon, the CABAL takes centre stage in Restoration politics. But it's never so simple...

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Bankruptcy forces the Royal Navy into port. I'm sure it'll be safe.

Nicholas Rodgers, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649–1815

Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.

Rebecca Rideal, 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire, 2016.

Frank Fox, The Four Days' Battle: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail, 2009.

David Onnekink & Gijs Rommelse, The Dutch in the Early Modern World.

Steve Murdoch, The terror of the Seas: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713, 2010.

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The Royal Navy and the Dutch fleet square off. Michiel de Ruyter needs to clear the way for the merchant fleet to get home, or else the Dutch economy might collapse. George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, is outnumbered and outgunned, and Prince Rupert races to join him.

Nicholas Rodgers, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649–1815

Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.

Rebecca Rideal, 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire, 2016.

Frank Fox, The Four Days' Battle: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail, 2009.

David Onnekink & Gijs Rommelse, The Dutch in the Early Modern World.

Steve Murdoch, The terror of the Seas: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713, 2010.

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After the Great Fire of London, the city needed to be rebuilt.

Rebecca Rideal, 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire

Jacob Field, London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recover.

Clare Jackson, Charles II: The Star King

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Today I speak with Dr Patrick Wyman, host of The Fall of Rome, Tides of History, and his new show Past Lives. He's also published The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World, and has a forthcoming book, Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World.

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