A dead king, a banished heir and a new kind of rule

The war didn’t end with the executioner’s axe. In this episode we follow the new regime as it wages brutal campaigns in Ireland and Scotland, all while Charles II plots a return. Charting the final throes of war, from the subjugation of Ireland to the Battle of Worcester, historian Rebecca Rideal asks: with the monarchy now abolished, what would replace it?

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