Rosemary Hill
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490 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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And so London's going to go through yet more ups and downs during this period, the most famous of them, of course, the Great Plague and the Great Fire.
And we're going to start in one of London's most notorious streets, Pudding Lane, as seen by Restoration London's most famous inhabitant, Samuel Peeps.
Yes, we're going to meet Peeps again more than once, but um before that we're going to go back to the death of Cromwell.
And the problem that you have having created a Commonwealth or a Republican
with succession.
And in one sense there's an obvious error.
though after all one of the points of getting rid of the monarchy was to get rid of dynastic succession, and the person who is in line
Richard Cromwell isn't really gonna make it.
And the one thing that people do want it is a wonderful phrase and
Of course, famously um England, Britain, doesn't have a written constitution, and through this period
The idea of the constitution has been pulled and pushed and expanded and contracted, and the one thing that everybody wants now is some kind of stability.
And London, as always, is on the side of stability, continuity.
Trade.
And
On the religious side of the question, and I think we can't lose sight of the fact that this is always to some extent a religious debate.
Religion and politics are not meaningfully separate at this time.
London is sort of full.
to the left on the polit on the religio political spectrum?
And nothing that is going to lead because after all, uh Charles the First's High Anglicanism, his support for Bishop Lord, that's
where all the trouble one of the places where the trouble started last time.
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