From the Gunpowder Plot to the killing of a king, from Cromwell and the Civil Wars to the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution, the 17th century shaped the world we live in today. Hosts Miranda Malins and Paul Lay combine historical rigour, entertaining storytelling and revealing guest interviews to draw this vibrant period out of the shadows.
Paul is a historian, writer and former editor of History Today magazine. He is the author of the acclaimed Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate.
Miranda is a writer and historian specialising in the history of Oliver Cromwell, his family and the politics of the Interregnum period following the Civil Wars. She has written two historical novels about the Cromwell family published by Orion Fiction: The Puritan Princess (2020) and The Rebel Daughter (2022).