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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    •      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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