Felt surreal hearing about you guys learning about Charles I for the first time. The English Civil War was between royalists and parliamentarians. Royalists were a bit like the later Jacobites wanting an absolute monarchy. Parliamentarians wanted extended suffrage / civil rights and religious tolerance. After 4% of the population of England died parliamentarians won, beheaded Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell came to power with parliament in control of England rather than a monarchy. Cromwell brought in a puritanical version of protestantism which England hadn't seen before (Church of England is like a light version of Catholicism but without the pope, Church of Scotland and forms of protestantism in other Northern European countries at this point were more puritanical). James I / VI (Charles I's dad, Mary I / Mary Queen of Scots' son) was the first monarch of both Scotland and England and tried to merge the two kingdoms, came up with the first Union Jack and under his rule the term "British" was first used (to describe the combined identity of English and Scottish colonisers of the Ulster plantation). Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the House of Lords at Westminster on the night the king attempted to pass the unification of Scotland and England into law, with the intention to kill James I / VI to reinstate Catholic rule and an absolute monarchy in England. Then under Charles I's rule various wars kicked off known as The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (kingdoms being England, Scotland and Ireland - Wales is considered part of England at this point) which were continued (exacerbated in the case of Ireland) under Cromwell's rule. The Levellers and Diggers were English radicals who fought for equality under the law and civil rights. The Diggers are kinda the origin of English radicalism and socialism - they got their name because they fought enclosure by filling in ditches and pulling down hedgerows when lords of the land kicked out poor people. The Diggers gathered thousands of people at a time to riot against landed gentry and argued for common ownership of land and resources (now known as agrarian socialism). The Levellers were like a centrist version, led by middle class people rather than poor people. Some of the Levellers ended up joining Cromwell because he promised to realise their ideas if they helped get rid of the monarchy. Cromwell's rule didn't live up to the Levellers' original ideas and the country soon defaulted back to a monarchy again.
Fuck sake, watching this podcast for the first time after listening to here comes the guillotine. in dunfermline after a nightshift, Went for a pish and saw my bro's got the dunfy scarf hanging up. whit a coincidence. quality stuff Bhoys!
What an episode, need to get CMB on more
Felt surreal hearing about you guys learning about Charles I for the first time.
The English Civil War was between royalists and parliamentarians. Royalists were a bit like the later Jacobites wanting an absolute monarchy. Parliamentarians wanted extended suffrage / civil rights and religious tolerance. After 4% of the population of England died parliamentarians won, beheaded Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell came to power with parliament in control of England rather than a monarchy. Cromwell brought in a puritanical version of protestantism which England hadn't seen before (Church of England is like a light version of Catholicism but without the pope, Church of Scotland and forms of protestantism in other Northern European countries at this point were more puritanical).
James I / VI (Charles I's dad, Mary I / Mary Queen of Scots' son) was the first monarch of both Scotland and England and tried to merge the two kingdoms, came up with the first Union Jack and under his rule the term "British" was first used (to describe the combined identity of English and Scottish colonisers of the Ulster plantation). Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the House of Lords at Westminster on the night the king attempted to pass the unification of Scotland and England into law, with the intention to kill James I / VI to reinstate Catholic rule and an absolute monarchy in England.
Then under Charles I's rule various wars kicked off known as The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (kingdoms being England, Scotland and Ireland - Wales is considered part of England at this point) which were continued (exacerbated in the case of Ireland) under Cromwell's rule.
The Levellers and Diggers were English radicals who fought for equality under the law and civil rights. The Diggers are kinda the origin of English radicalism and socialism - they got their name because they fought enclosure by filling in ditches and pulling down hedgerows when lords of the land kicked out poor people. The Diggers gathered thousands of people at a time to riot against landed gentry and argued for common ownership of land and resources (now known as agrarian socialism). The Levellers were like a centrist version, led by middle class people rather than poor people. Some of the Levellers ended up joining Cromwell because he promised to realise their ideas if they helped get rid of the monarchy. Cromwell's rule didn't live up to the Levellers' original ideas and the country soon defaulted back to a monarchy again.
Is this no basically what I said?
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Whos reading that on a comedy podcast thread ...
another amazing episode!!!! ❤❤
Fuck sake, watching this podcast for the first time after listening to here comes the guillotine. in dunfermline after a nightshift, Went for a pish and saw my bro's got the dunfy scarf hanging up. whit a coincidence. quality stuff Bhoys!
Haha nice, thanks for watching mate!
That Eminem patter could have gone on and on 😂😭
I know someone who almost died from drinking water. It was wild. Body shuts down.
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