I was, very much looking forward to this lecture, which was completely ruined by the sound quality. I lasted about 2 minutes before the venue's acoustics defeated me. Shame.

U are a national treasure

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I think the good doctor needs clarification on what the word "achievement" means.

Fantastique. Une chanson pour l'éternité. 🌞🌞🌞

This is an informative and engaging talk, thank you for posting. I just have to point out that at 28:00 that student fees are not a great example for illustrating why the government cutting taxes below the budget was unsuccessful. Universities are paid for by tax revenue and fees only become neccessary when the government doesn’t have the will to fund them, recently due to an aggressive attack on public goods. A better example is perhaps simply cutting taxes below the point where they can support the structures of the state, which continues to be relevant today.

This is the first talk I’ve listened to about Oliver Cromwell ever and I was not expecting all of those well-placed pop culture references to liven-up the subject matter without trivialising it. Cool! Though wow this was weeks before the first lockdown and I hope that chest infection wasn’t COVID. 😢

Ronald Hutton - just the right combination of historian and dramatist - history comes alive in his presentations. No pauses, no gaps, a smooth flow of articulation from start to finish.

Excellent x

Great history storytelling. Oh to be a student of his history classes.

Always found details of history in school difficult as a boy. Would have been quite different if we had lecturers such as prof Ronald Hutton. Really enjoyed this lecture.

My favorite historian 😊

Hat is off to you sir, brilliant

Merci pour le souvenir soit salué depuis ta position vieux Farka toure

Love professor Hutton.

Psychopathic dynasties rule the world; they always have done and probably always will.

There are no barbers on the Dalek home world.

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16 years ago ! i saw them around this time at The Hammersmith Palais (now shut down palais) around that time 2007.

Oliver Cromwell, my first cousin x11 removed..interesting English Nobleman..a friend of MILTON..WHO WROTE Paradise LOST.

You teaching all of this bs. While not telling the people you talking to that lord protector Cromwell was black

Excellent, thankyou John Rees

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This is a harsh appraisal of Cromwell, but I think it makes the case he was the first truly modern British politician, even more deserving of that title than Walpole.

Wow that was so good. Thanks for sharing

BILL STICKERS IS INNOCENT!

Where did that bullshit about Spanish pikes come from?

Ronnie always delivers the best.

I like so much to listen to Mr Professeur HUTTON he's so sound and funy altogether. And hes accent is so easy to understand for me french born.

Thankyou for the privilege of hearing Professor Hutton speak!

Thankyou for the privilege of hearing Professor Hutton speak; he is a truly wonderful and erudite communicator and scholar!

Thankyou for the privilege of hearing Professor Hutton speak!

well said as ever prof Ron keep it real 😎

Thankyou so much for the privilege of hearing Professor Hutton speak!

amazing

Wow, great lecture of a complicated period of war, religion, and politics with the nation near bankrupt and no construction.i like to think Cromwell saw something in Monck that England needed and compromise is the English way for a mougrel nation.

Prof Hutton is GREAT👍🥳

Very poor sound quality

Shame you are using Indian eBay armour for the demo but nice video anyway.

I could listen to Professor Ronald Hutton forever, this man's knowledge of my favorite period of history is boundless and relayed with humor and gravity in equal measure. This what a national treasure looks and sounds like.

RIP Wilko.

. . . And that there IS such a thing as 'society'. Well spoken, Owen.

A superb, forceful speech.

Couldn’t agree more! The Irish have a lot to answer for…At Drogheda those vanquished were mainly of the English Royalists and their Irish supporters…As for the following years, how come the Scottish Stewarts of James II, the Old Pretender and the Young Pretender all funded by France, came very nearly to gain the day before ´king Billy’ and the outcome of the Battle of the Boyne? Had James II succeeded, and England, Scotland and Wales been subjected oh once again Bloody Mary, burn all except the Irish to your hearts content…!

I’d love to hear Professor Hutton on General Monk…

Very nice talk. Thanks!

What a stud, I can listen to Hutton talk all day. It's the clear distinction that he is equal parts historian and psychologist that REALLY sets him apart from your garden variety run-of-the-mill historian. Debt to the dead paid in full chap. Bravo

Mark Goldie was my internal PhD examiner; sharp as a razor but also generous and willing to give encouragement for futher enterprises. Glad to see that he's still at the coalface (though I never heard him swear until now!).

My 9th Great Grandparents lived here during this time. The father "was seen in London" and she was left with 2 small children and then with a huge fire I can see why she would sail to America

Hi Haydn, remember the time we holed up inside your house for an entire day and a bit to watch Jerry Seinfeld? Sorry to see it all coming to an end. There are no words for describing such losses in life. We are forced to move on and create new and positive memories without forgetting the old ones. As you know ...I'm experiencing my own losses these days, but I'm left with 2 wonderful children who are old enough to stand on their own feet, thank God!