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Podcast: New Books in Western European Studies
Episode: Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
Description: Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades. Why was this period so turbulent, and why did the republic, backed by a formidable standing army, come crashing down in such spectacular fashion?In The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic (Yale UP, 2024), Henry Re...