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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 5 dias · 12 May 2024. An exhibition about Oliver Cromwell's home town has raised the possibility he must have seen Mary, Queen of Scots' coffin as a school boy. The Parliamentarian Civil War leader spent ...
29 de abr. de 2024 · The son of Robert Cromwell—a member of one of Queen Elizabeth I’s parliaments, a landlord, and a justice of the peace—Oliver Cromwell also was descended indirectly on his father’s side from Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, who had helped Oliver’s great-grandfather and grandfather acquire confiscated monastic ...
7 de mai. de 2024 · In the summer of 1656 both Richard and Henry, Oliver’s sons, became fathers of sons, both named Oliver. Little suggests that the combination of these developments enabled Cromwell senior to begin thinking in dynastic terms.
Há 3 dias · Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN: 9780333688960; 288pp.; Price: £60.00. Ian Gentles’ book (a welcome addition to the British History in Perspective Series edited by Jeremy Black) is the first new biography of Oliver Cromwell in many years. The book contains significant new research, and Professor Gentles presents us with a far ...
Há 5 dias · Jason Peacey rounds off the book with a successful defence against Cromwell’s successor as Protector, his son Richard, against traditional charges of laziness and political inexperience. He shows well how the younger Cromwell spent the first half of the Protectorate learning the ropes of local government and service as an MP, and ...
Há 5 dias · An exhibition about Oliver Cromwell's home town has raised the possibility he must have seen Mary, Queen of Scots' coffin as a school boy. The Parliamentarian Civil War leader spent his early years in Huntingdon, in present-day Cambridgeshire, and the exhibition focuses on the town during his life time.
