Golden Idol History - Oliver Cromwell and Edmund Cloudsley

Описание: This video goes over Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War, which seem to have been a major inspiration for the character of Edmund Cloudsley in "Case of the Golden Idol". The video is divided into a summary of the relevant history, followed by a comparison to the events of the game.

Thanks to @GemR38 for the idea to make this video!

To skip to the section about Case of the Golden Idol, go to 26:10.

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Time stamps:

0:00 - 1:58 - Intro
1:59 - 3:01 - My Sources
3:02 - 4:43 - What were things like back then?
4:44 - 8:10 - What was the First English Civil War?
8:11 - 11:52 - Who was Oliver Cromwell?
11:53 - 15:21 - What happened to King Charles I?
15:22 - 20:10 - The Commonwealth and the Third Civil War
20:11 - 22:33 - Cromwell's Uncontested Rule
22:34 - 24:07 - Aftermath
24:08 - 26:11 - Who were the Levellers?
26:12 - 26:59 - Parallels in Golden Idol
27:00 - 31:25 - How do politics and religion work in Albion? and comparisons to the Civil War
31:26 - 35:35 - Comparisons to Oliver Cromwell
35:36 - 38:44 - What do the Golden Idol games have to say about history?
38:44 - 39:24 - Outro

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This is the hardest I've worked on a video so far, so I hope you enjoy it! This is my first time in a very long time doing this kind of historical research project. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't really know what I was doing.


Sources:

Antonia Fraser. Our Chief of Men. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2002.

Diane Purkiss. The English Civil War: A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2006.

Historia Civilis video on the trial of King Charles I:    • The Trial of Charles I (1649)  

Ship Money: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ship...

Death Warrant of King Charles: https://www.parliament.uk/about/livin...

England and Scotland were under a personal union from 1603:
https://www.parliament.uk/about/livin....

England had no standing army before the new model army:
(Via Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briti... )
David G. Chandler, ed., The Oxford history of the British army (1996) pp. 24–45.

Expeditionary forces were raised by paying mercenaries:
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...

Number of parliaments called in 1600s:
https://www.parliament.uk/globalasset...

Thomas Hobbes in exile during the Putney debates:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/histori....

First Bishop’s war: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/l...

Source for actual number of total people killed in the Irish Rising: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/r...

Image sources:

I checked images as I was adding them to make sure they were public domain, but please let me know if I missed any licensed images or left them out of my list of sources. The list of sources can be found here: https://pastecode.io/s/90cg27c7