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 ...

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 ...

The Civil War ended with Charles I's execution and the establishment ... by the establishment of a Protestant Republic led by Oliver Cromwell. One of the first acts of the Puritan regime was ...

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 ...