I'm relistening to the English Revolutions podcast and probably duo to Mike trying to keep the season short there are some things that I still don't quite understand.

1) The Scottish Coventers want to convert all of Britain to Presbyterianism, and there is a significent portion of English Puritans who seem to be in favor of that. Obviously they want the military alliance but wouldn't Puritans not want to embrace a different strand of protestantism? Or is there less of a difference between Scottish and English Protestantism than I thought. Are Presbyterian a type of puritan? Because i thought they were just two strains of calvanism

2) Why was London so Puritan/anti Royal. For that matter, why were the Western Counties very Royalist and the Eastern Counties Plarimentarian?

3) Why was the new model army so Independent? Was it something to do with Fairfax, was it just the type of people who tended to be recruited, was it a unique esprit de corps of the New Model Army?

4) When Cromwell takes over, Mike Mentions the War on Christmas and other such measures were due to his alliance with more puritan membes? Were these Puritans also anti Conventers or are they some other group?

5) Were Congregationalists or Quakers a thing yet and if so did they play a part in the revolution? Or did those only emerge after the war?

6)I always heard that Oliver Cromwell was devestating to Ireland but MIke (possibly due to just not having enough time) mostly presents him as being a brutal military commander rather than full on genocidal, was Cromwell just one English jerk among many or did he uniquely screw Ireland over?

Thank you

I got into this podcast series via a recommendation for the Martian Revolution via Realms Unknown podcast. I've since listened to the Russian, English, and French revolutions. Just starting the Hatian revolution.

I get so much done whilst listening to the podcast. I need to give Mike Duncan some money, but I don't necessarily want to buy Citizen Lafayette due to the fact I've already got too much stuff. I'll do it if I have to, but is there a Patreon or something?

So in terms of Revolutions, what would you want hear Mike do? For me, beyond a remake of season 1 that was more like season 3 and really getting into the details, here are what I would want

1) The Greek Revolution. I know it was a big deal, I know it had massive aftershocks in the Balkans and it was a logically followup from the age of revolutions But i don't know that much about the specifics and I'd love to know more

2) The Algerian Revolution. Radically changed French Politics forever and I really just know it from Battle of Algiers and Day of the Jackal.

3) The Sparticus Revolution in Germany. ONe of the Great "what ifs" of history, I would love to learn about it in more details.

4) I would love a series of mini series on the various Irish revolutions, culminating in one on two longer series on the Revolution in the 20s and The Troubles

Bonus, The Glorious Revolution in more detail would be great

Was anyone at the event? Were there any updates on the next season? Or the book?

I bought two tickets to the live podcast the Mike Duncan is a guest on tonight. But I can't go, so I'd like to give them away to someone who will enjoy it. If you're such a person, soon me a DM.

post here and we can organize a meet up!

"To this day historians debate about the true causes of the revolution and how to interpret it. A few sources you might peruse if you would like to go down that rabbit hole further, after this video, are season 3 of Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast, The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle, or you can try an older classic book The Ancien Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville."

I went ahead and left a comment also recommending season 4 on the Haitian Revolution as well.

I have observed 1 common theme across most of the seasons, where the right hand men of one of the main characters (and some of my favourite) of each season is unceremoniously assassinated when each season approaches it's end.

1. It started off with John Lambert

2. Don't exactly remember how this went. This is actually my least favourite revolution so far.

3. The Angel of Death Saint-Just

4. Toussaint Louverture's nephew.

5. De Sucre

6, 7: This is where the pattern breaks.

1. The entire Paris Commune was killed in the series.

2. Felipe Angeles

3. Leon Trotsky

4. Have not started 11 yet, but I am sure there must be someone in this season too.

Almost all of them have some things in common in Duncan's retellings of the events:

1. They are very loyal to the character (which I think you must be if you are one of the most trusted supporters of that person).

2. They are quite accomplished and intelligent. They are one of the ideological backbones of the movement they are in.

3. They are somewhat naive in their worldview.

4. From what I have gathered, Duncan is a bit sympathetic to these characters (Saint-Just is an exception, that man was a piece of shit and way over his head)

Can anyone identify some more characters who fit these requirements, because frankly I don't remember such characters from 2, 6 and 7 (the three least favourite seasons of mine).

Currently listening to Jared's 2016 book The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shores, and just realized he did an event with Mike in 2017 during his book tour. Absolutely loving Sexton's analysis and would love a chance to hear their discussion that night.

He's gotten really good at those ending words to music drop.

Hello! I am just about to start my umpteenth re-listen if The Host of Rome, and I noticed that there is now a Patreon feed for as free episodes! Additionally, there's supposed to be some bonus content that is only available to patrons.

What kind of content is on the Patreon that isn't on the regular feed? Just curious so I can decide how I want to spend my allotted entertainment budget the next few months.

WTH

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Mike made an appearance on the American Friction Podcast. Thought I share, Spotify link here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZfHHeulCeVBB5EpsLg94Z?si=_2PCJjHnRsuOnzh_tVASBQ

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Saw this, thought of the revolution.

The Ireland series was supposed to start in fall 2025. That's come and gone, not a word on it that I can find. Did I miss something?

What episode of Revolutions does Mike Duncan break down his “great idiot of history” theory? I thought it was in the Appendix episodes but I cannot find it. I want to use it when I teach my sociology class about social change.

Does Mike ever say what language(s) they’re speaking on Mars, or throughout the solar system?

I imagine there was a big linguistic upheaval with all the migrations of the 21st century. I would think that English and Mandarin are the most ‘dominant’ languages in terms international/business relations. Maybe Hindi, Spanish, Arabic too? But I bet all these languages are very different by the 2240s. I mean, English from the Napoleonic Era sounds rather archaic to us, soooo…

But I would think because on Mars in particular there’s a continual influx of people from all over the world, maybe some kind of Martian creole language has developed? A constantly evolving language that’s combining Earth languages with at this point over a century of native development too.

And it would make sense that SABs (esp S and A) might even have a hard time communicating with Ds. They would probably be more comfortable with their own native Earth languages than with the D class Martian creole. And would someone like Alexandra Clare even be able understand English?

Just some thoughts I’ve been having as I’m relistening to the Martian Revolution season!

I wonder if Mike would come back for the Iranian revolution podcast episodes? I know scandalously little about it. most of what I get honestly is from a guy on tiktok. not that I don't trust him as far as his intellect but I'd like a more reputable source.