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Há 5 dias · Britain in Revolution, 1625-1660. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN: 198200811X; 825pp.; Price: £25.00. Britain in Revolution is a huge book in every sense, the distillation of a lifetime’s-worth of teaching, researching and writing, resulting in a large, sweeping narrative account of a very high standard.
Há 1 dia · 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 4 dias · Cromwell’s Legacy edited by: Jane A. Mills Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780719080890; 336pp.;Price: £65.00
Há 3 dias · Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) rose up from lowly beginnings in Putney to become King Henry VIII’s right hand man. From the 1520s Cromwell, then a successful London businessman, leased a large house from the friary. It was three storeys high, had fourteen rooms and a garden. Map of Tudor London showing the Austin Friars monastery, from Layers of ...
Context: Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan who became Lord Protector of England and brutally put down the Irish Catholic Confederation, shocking even his contemporaries in some cases. His actions effectively dictated the British policy toward Ireland for the next few centuries. There is no Englishman more hated than by the Irish than him.
Há 2 dias · Thomas Cromwell ( / ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
Há 5 dias · Lambert at first gave a lukewarm support to Richard Cromwell, and took no part in the intrigues of the officers at Fleetwood's residence, Wallingford House. He was a member of the Third Protectorate Parliament which met in January 1659, and when it was dissolved in April under compulsion of Fleetwood and Desborough, he was restored ...
