Pax Britannica is a narrative history podcast covering the empire upon which the sun never set. Shortlisted for the 2023 Independent Podcast Awards, Pax Britannica follows the events which created an empire that dominated the globe. Hosted by Dr Samuel Hume, a historian of British Imperial history, Pax Britannica aims to explain the rise and eventual fall of the largest empire in history. After all, how peaceful was the 'British Peace'?
https://www.PaxBritannica.info
episode 22: A Mountain of Gold
Two of the greatest naval commanders of the 17th century - Robert Blake and Maarten Tromp - face off in the English Channel. After months of growing hostilities, a refusal to salute English ships is enough to spark a shooting war between the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
Have your say in the Airwave survey! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PAXBRITANNICA
Join the Mailing List! Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate
Join the Patreon House of Lords for ad-free episodes!
- Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006.
- Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015.
- Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002.
- Nicholas Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: a Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649-1815, 2004.
- Ian Roy, 'Prince Rupert', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Roger Hainsworth, Christine Churches, The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars, 1652-1674, 1998.
- Christian J. Koot, ‘A “Dangerous Principle”: Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 1650—1689’, Early American Studies, 5.1 (2007), 132–63.
- Thomas Leng, ‘Commercial Conflict and Regulation in the Discourse of Trade in Seventeenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal, 48.4 (2005), 933–54
- Jonathan Barth, The Currency of Empire, Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Cornell University Press, 2021).
- 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.
Go to AirwaveMedia.com to find other great history shows.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices