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 ...

When Oliver Cromwell died in September of that year, his oldest son Richard inherited the title of Lord Protector, and with it a state that Henry Reece describes as a “teat with too many mouths ...

On September 17, 1656, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, addressed the English Parliament to lay out his foreign policy, and he began by asking the most basic political questions: Who are our ...

A museum which tells the story of Oliver Cromwell is hoping to acquire an ... also prominent during the Civil War leader's ...

Protector. She died at Hampton Court on the sixth day of August in the 28th year of her age and in the year of our Lord 1658. She was born at Huntingdon and baptised on 2nd July 1629, one of the nine ...

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 ...