03.39 - Francis Drake's Ghost

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

The fleet of the Western Design arrives off the coast of Hispaniola, and Oliver Cromwell's dream of a Protestant colonial empire seems assured. But it doesn't take long for everything to go wrong...

This episode could not have been written without the following works:

• Alice Hunt, Republic, 2024.
• Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.
• Michael Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.
• Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.
• Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World, 2023.
• Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic, 2020.
• Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.
• John Morrill, The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Volume 3: 16 December 1653 to 2 September 1658, 2023
• John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
• Alan MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004.
• Ian Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022.
• Carla Gardina Pestana, 'Atlantic Mobilities and the Defiance of the Early Quakers', Journal of Early Modern History, 2023.
• Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution, 2007.
• Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire, 2017.
• Hilary Beckles, A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market, 2006

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