Ep 213: Paul Lay on Cromwell and the English Civil War

School of War · Jul 8, 2025 · 58m

Paul Lay, Senior Editor of Engelsberg Ideas and author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate,joins the show to talk about the turbulent age of the English Civil War, Cromwell, and the Protectorate.

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Times

• 01:45 Introduction

• 02:00 17th century

• 03:51 The Thirty Years War

• 12:40 Anti-Catholicism

• 15:24 Underlying causes

• 21:46 Cromwell

• 30:34 Thatcher

• 33:04 The Rump Parliament

• 37:07 Western Design

• 54:44 Reverberations

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