Thanksgiving & England’s Civil War

Here’s my interview with Oxford historian Jonathan Healey about his new book on Britain’s spiral into civil war called The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642. That war was theological, political, constitutional and economic. This conversation is especially timely this week of America’s Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims were ultra-Protestant separatists whose persecution in England foreshadowed the parliamentary Puritan revolt against King Charles I and the established church. Ultimately, American democracy and religious freedom were the largely unintentional fruits of what emerged from Britain’s civil war and the compromises that followed.

Watch video of our conversation on IRD’s YouTube channel below:

Audio can be downloaded in a podcast format from IRD’s SoundCloud channel here: