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'?
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- 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.
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