Cromwell in America
As America built a vision of its past Oliver Cromwell became both angel and demon.
Interregnum
The End of the Old World?
Understanding the power relations that transoceanic settlements and trade opened up.
Imperial Designs: Cromwell's Conquest of Jamaica
The Lord Protector’s move on Jamaica transformed Britain’s early empire.
Oliver Cromwell, the Laughing Roundhead
Behind the serious face of the Lord Protector lay a man with a taste for terrible puns, pillow fights and unseemly practical jokes.
Oliver Cromwell and the Levellers
Maurice Ashley describes how Cromwell and the Levellers both believed in freedom of conscience and political reform; but character and circumstances divided them.
Cromwell and the Historians
Critics of Cromwell, both British and foreign, have long continued to “find what they were looking for” in the records of his career and character. Some have denounced him as a hypocritical tyrant; others have described him as the finest type of middle-class Englishman. Once at least, writes D.H. Pennington, he has been acclaimed as “the greatest Englishman of all time”.
Christmas under the Puritans
Both the religious and the secular celebration of Christmas was forbidden by the English Puritan republic, but by no means everywhere with success.
The Rump Parliament Expelled: April 1653
Michael Howard records the relish with which Oliver Cromwell ended a particularly famous session in the House of Commons.
Richard Cromwell Resigns as Lord Protector
The Lord Protector stood down on May 25th, 1659.
The Cromwellian Protectorate
Graham Goodlad surveys the variety of interpretations offered by historians of Cromwellian rule in the 1650s.