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 ...

On September 17, 1656, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector ... During the war, Catholics largely supported the Royalist side; Charles I, now king, was married to the Catholic French princess ...

Hutton admits to feeling Charles I was hard done by – a victim ... we owe this remarkable man much more than we realise. Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief is published by Yale at £25.

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and ...

Oliver Cromwell rises from obscurity, challenges King Charles I in the English Civil War, and ultimately orders the King's execution - as he says, a it was a 'cruel necessity'. In other parts of ...

When Charles II was restored to the throne the House of Commons voted on 4th December 1660 that the coffins of regicides Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw should be dug up from the Abbey ...