Was the Protectorate a Military Dictatorship?
Early Modern British History
By Professor Barry Coward. Produced by Simon Brown, published 12th August 2015
A question that can't be answered?
In this podcast Professor Barry Coward, former President of the Historical Association asks: "Was the Cromwellian Protectorate a military dictatorship?"
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- 1. Introduction. A question that can't be answered?
- 2. Authoritarian examples of the regime.
- 3. 'Security', censorship and the war on terror.
- 4. The Instrument of Power and limits on the power of the Protector.
- 5. Critical and satirical material not always censored.
- 6. Evidence of religious toleration.
- 7. Neither a dictatorship or a constitutional regime.
- 8. Cromwell safeguarding the cause of 'Godly Reformation'.
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