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 ...

The macabre tale of Oliver Cromwell's head is a story "so strange that you couldn't possibly make it up". It is the subject of an exhibition at the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, which is ...

The wife of Parliamentarian leader Oliver Cromwell rose to prominence when he ... which is look after the kids". "It is wonderful to know that we've got this connection and it's such a shame ...

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 ...