Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England ... On 30th January, the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, the hangings took place and then the heads were cut off and stuck on ...

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Oliver Cromwell. The latter Cromwell was a key figure of the English Civil War and advocate of Charles I's execution in 1649, ...

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 ...

On the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I on 30th January the bodies were hung. A 19th century stone over the vault where he was buried (now the Royal Air Force chapel) reads: In this ...

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 ...