the period of the English Civil Wars and their aftermath is rarely described as one of constitutional revolution. The notion that the 1650s were politically conservative is exemplified by the tendency ...

Ireton shared Oliver ... even Cromwell, brought about the execution of Charles I. Indeed it was Ireton's influence, symbolised by his marriage to Bridget Cromwell, that did much to persuade Cromwell ...

Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...

Over the centuries, the story of the burial of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell's headless body at Newburgh Priory in North Yorkshire has been myth, rumour and legend. The Wombwell family ...

covers the 1647 discussions between the Levellers - a group created in the wake of the first English Civil War - and army generals. Chaired by Oliver Cromwell, those who felt ordinary people ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th April 1599. He was the second son of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and his wife ...