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 ...

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 ...

With around 63 monarchs spanning over 1,200 years, the UK have been sharing their thoughts on their favourite of the historic ...

This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

often refers to him almost admiringly as “Oliver”. Hutton charts Cromwell’s rise as a military leader between 1647 and 1653, ...

It’s hard to picture Oliver Cromwell, England’s first Lord Protector, bowling around Croydon as a means of relaxation. It is equally challenging to imagine a farmer bowling from Croydon to ...

The mansion, at Auckland Castle, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, dates back to about 1650 and was built by Sir Arthur Haselrig, who was a key ally of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. But just 10 ...