Oliver Cromwell

Patrick Little asks why Parliament offered the infamous regicide the crown of England, to what extent he was tempted to take it – and why he finally turned it down.

David L Smith explains why Cromwell so signally failed to establish harmony with his Parliaments.

In this edited version of a lecture given on 25 March 1999, to commemorate the anniversary of Cromwell's birth, John Morrill provides us with a series of snapshots, at different ages, of the troubled visionary who aspired to lead a new chosen people out of the bondage of Stuart tyranny.

The early life of Oliver Cromwell, who was born on 25 April 1599.

Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience.

Richard Wilkinson argues that Cromwell had what it took to rule Britain but failed to achieve his own idealistic programme.

Graham Seel reassesses the career of Oliver Cromwell's predecessor as Parliamentary Commander in the 1640s, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and argues that he has been harshly judged by English Civil War historians.

The campaign to preserve the Battle of Naseby site in Northamptonshire, a pivotal moment in the English Civil War.

J. H. M. Salmon looks at Romantic literary interpretations of Oliver Cromwell.