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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 1: Civil War
Description: Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about the event that is sometimes – but not always – called the English Revolution: the Civil War of the 1640s and the short-lived republic that followed. David talks to historian Clare Jackson about whether this really was a revolution and about the thinking that inspired it. What was old, what was new, what was borrowed and what was left when it was all over – what happened to the dreams of a brave new world?Out tomorrow: the latest edition of our free fortnightly newsletter with guides to the most rece...