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In this penultimate episode of our series, we learn how the Earl of Aberdeen managed to cajole, manipulate, persuade and basically leverage every trick in the book to convince Brito...
2023-04-17 05:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Battle of Jankau in 1645, followed by Allerheim later in the year, confirmed that the Emperor could expect few miracles from the battlefield. Bavaria seemed teetering on the edg...
2023-04-05 15:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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By the end of 1845, Foreign Secretary the Earl of Aberdeen felt he had little left to lose. The Tory government under Sir Robert Peel looked destined to divide over the Corn Laws, i...
2023-04-03 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Super juicy diplomacy time has arrived, as we draw from a range of sources to depict the sense of distrust between the British, American, and French camps, twinned with a sense of l...
2023-03-20 20:06:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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The wide range of interests and powers that gathered at the two Westphalian cities each tell a fascinating story. Whether it was the two French agents that loathed one another; the ...
2023-03-15 13:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the Maine boundary resolved, the final issue of note between the US and UK by 1844 was that of Oregon. Its status had been unusual and contested from the beginning, but with a ...
2023-03-13 17:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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After a few weeks patting themselves on the back, Sir Robert Peel's government soon came to realise that the Webster-Ashburton Treaty wasn't all they had hoped for. Worse, Palmersto...
2023-03-06 11:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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After so long dancing around the issue, here we finally look at the moment when the Westphalian towns of Osnabruck and Munster hosted delegates from all across Europe and the Empire...
2023-03-01 18:07:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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Herein we examine the months of autumn 1842, where reaction to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty varied and changed as the year progressed. Were the agreements made with Washington the b...
2023-02-27 23:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The journey to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty was long and painful, but the Earl of Aberdeen would have to persevere if the improvement in Anglo-American relations - and the boost in trade - was to b...
2023-02-18 18:49:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode we examine how the French coped with the sudden absence of Sweden, which had turned its attention to the Danes. France had to cont...
2023-02-18 18:39:46 +0000 UTC View Post
In this latest installment, we see how Alexander McLeod's fate was finally sealed. Did he serve as the cause of an Anglo-American War? SPOILER - not quite, but he did compel the new Conservative go...
2023-02-10 15:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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By late 1643, one could be forgiven for expecting Lennart Torstennson, the Swedish commander in Germany, to take stock of his situation and plan for a new campaign in the new year. ...
2023-01-31 22:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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By spring 1841, Palmerston was running out of patience. New York remained entirely uncooperative, and Washington refused to interven...
2023-01-29 17:51:45 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
It's about time I dropped my research on you guys, so in this episode we'll be plumbing the depths of something I've mentioned many times, but rarely taken the time to define or exp...
2023-01-25 12:51:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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Just when you thought it was safe to step outside of Lockport jail, a New York mob trains a cannon on your cell! This was the situation facing Alexander McLeod in late 1840. McLeod ...
2023-01-20 19:08:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Oh boy, it's finally time! Now you get to see what I've been working on over the Christmas break, an extremely chunky and detailed twelve part series examining Anglo-American relati...
2023-01-14 21:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
The Battle of Rocroi was a signal French triumph, but it did not transform the face of the war, either in the Netherlands or in Europe. A Bavarian victory later in the year at Tutli...
2023-01-11 20:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
1641 was the year when Lennart Torstensson was finally appointed commander of Sweden's mostly German army. Having hunkered down for many years in the north of the country, Torstenss...
2022-12-18 20:16:44 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
By 1640, two rebellions shook Madrid to its core, and had a dramatic knock on effect on Spain's ability to support its Habsburg cousins in Vienna. In summer, Catalonia erupted in re...
2022-11-30 17:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
In this episode I'm joined for a great conversation about Frederick the Great's 1740 invasion of Silesia, by a guy who knows a whole lot about it - Alec Avdakov from the Life an...
2022-11-19 17:41:21 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
By 1640, both the Habsburgs and their foes had reached something of a crisis. There were opportunities to be had, if a new campaign could be pursued, but where to find the money, an...
2022-11-09 20:55:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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War is hell, as the saying goes, but just how bad was the war by the late 1630s, after two decades of fighting? As we learn here, the worst aspects of the conflict didn't come from t...
2022-10-26 18:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
King Philip IV of Spain and King Charles of Britain had a surprising amount in common by the late 1630s. Both were presiding over a deteriorating situation domestically and abroad, and during the B...
2022-10-12 16:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
When will I be finished the PhD? What series do I have planned to follow the Thirty Years War series? What will patrons get next? Will we ever see a second Delegation Game? all of t...
2022-10-06 18:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
After ten years of podding, we've seen a wide range of fascinating guests brave enough to nerd out with yours truly, but who is my favourite? Find out here, in this long-delayed epi...
2022-10-06 18:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post[PATRONS]
The war which began in the Habsburg humiliation at Prague had arguably crystallized by the late 1630s, and thus begins perhaps my favourite period of the conflict! We now have battl...
2022-09-22 21:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Having looked at Sweden's failed plans for Poland, and then at Richelieu's ultimate survival, we return here to the Swedish theatre - this time, the pressure is all on the Swedish Chancellor Axel O...
2022-08-19 19:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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After so many years of cold war, finally, by 1635, France and Spain were destined to face each other in the battle - and what a battle it was! As defensive and offensive plans colli...
2022-08-04 16:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post