Ireton shared Oliver ... by his marriage to Bridget Cromwell, that did much to persuade Cromwell to become a regicide. Ireton's importance was through the theoretical and practical framework he ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Despite the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a kingless republic, the period of the English Civil Wars ... upon the offer of ...

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 ...

The macabre tale of Oliver Cromwell's head is a story "so strange that you couldn't possibly make it up". It is the subject of an exhibition at the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, which is ...

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 ...