Episode 2.111: Conclusion

Wherein the podcast, like the English Republic, disappears from history.

Spring 1660After a long exile, the rightful King returns, to restore the line of his ancestors.

January 1660A broad movement for a free parliament unites royalists, Presbyterians, the apprentices of London, and the only coherent army left in England.

December 1659Assailed on multiple fronts, the Committee of Safety simply dissolves. Without any other immediate options, England (for the third time) turns to the Rump.

1659As the Committee of Safety struggles to establish itself as England's new government, London falls under the sway of different ruler - coffee.

1659Army officers and the Rump squabble over the remains of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth state

Summer 1659The new regime at Westminster is briefly united by the most dangerous royalist insurgency parliament has yet faced.

1659Having run out of ideas, England once again turns to the men of the Rump parliament, who Oliver Cromwell had banished from Westminster six years earlier.

Fall 1658With the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate seeks stability under a new, untested Lord Protector.

1658Just when Cromwell completes his dream of securing Dunkirk, England is drawn into a new war in Scandinavia.