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Há 3 dias · Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and latterly as a ...
- Soldier and statesman
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- pre-1642 (militia service), 1642–1651 (civil war)
- Robert Cromwell (father), Elizabeth Steward (mother)
Há 1 dia · Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the imperial government led the 13 colonies to begin uniting in 1774, and expelling British officials by 1775.
- Colonies
- Various colonial arrangements
Há 3 dias · The territorial evolution of the British Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation of the English colonial empire in the late 16th century. Since then, many territories around the world have been under the control of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states. When the Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707 by the union of ...
14 de mai. de 2024 · Although much of what, culturally, seems to define the 1660s has powerful connections to the 1650s, it still seems as though what we think of as 'Restoration' culture took its rise from that event. So while the Restoration can hardly now be characterised as an absent chapter, it is the location of some enduring myths that an examination of a decade brings under useful scrutiny.
Há 1 dia · Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780719081613; 288pp.; Price: £60.00. The editors of this volume situate their collection of essays in a landscape in which the interregnum as a whole is neglected territory for historians, and the royalist experience of it an unexplored substratum.
Há 5 dias · The rent paid for carrying the Londoners' wares from the river and beck to Highgate was c. £12 a year in the first half of the century, rising to £17 in the early 1650s; it then fell to £10—£11 a year in the early 1660s and to £7 4s. in 1668, when 237 loads were led, 41 of them apparently unsold after the fair.
14 de mai. de 2024 · The Early English Baptists, 1603–1649. Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, ISBN: 9781843831952; 288pp.; Price: £50.00. Wright’s volume is very much to be welcomed moving as it does beyond the traditional debates concerning the relationship between General (Arminian) and Particular (Calvinist) congregations, and the argument as to whether ...
