What it’s about: You know you’ve made it when your head has its own Wikipedia page. Of course, it helps if your head’s been separated from your body. That’s what happened to Oliver Cromwell, though he ...

Sly, vindictive, glory-guzzling, ruthless: a warts-and-all life of Oliver Cromwell Ronald Hutton's new biography The Making of Oliver Cromwell portrays the Lord Protector as a ‘Puritan jihadi’ who ...

As the first of the great modern dictators, Oliver Cromwell interests us more to-day than perhaps any other historical figure. He tried what is being tried in many countries at the present, and, ...

Research has shown that such was the violence displayed by Cromwell and his forces during the Siege of Drogheda and the subsequent Siege of Wexford that, even by 17th-century standards, they can be ...

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With his statue still standing (for now) outside the Houses of Parliament, and as a perennial figure in surveys of Britain’s top 10 historical figures, Oliver Cromwell is forever part of the national ...