Oliver Cromwell, the Laughing Roundhead
Behind the serious face of the Lord Protector lay a man with a taste for terrible puns, pillow fights and unseemly practical jokes.
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Lady Bankes defends Corfe Castle
Accounts of the second siege of the royalist stronghold in Dorset during England’s Civil Wars have romanticised the role of its aristocratic owner. But was Mary, Lady Bankes even there? Patrick Little investigates.
Save the Cromwell Museum
As interest in the Protector grows, the axe hangs over his former school.
Obituary: Professor Barry Coward
Patrick Little celebrates the life and career of a major historian of Early Modern Britain.
Cromwell, Charles II and the Naseby: Ship of State
The fortunes of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and the regard in which their successive regimes came to be held were mirrored in the fate of one of their mightiest naval vessels, as Patrick Little explains.
Cromwell the Dandy
Puritan souls may hide a cavalier approach to clothes, according to Patrick Little as he explores fashion at the court of Oliver Cromwell.
Writing It Down
Gordon Brown’s promised written constitution – if it happens – won’t be the first in British history, as Patrick Little reminds us.
Offering the Crown to Cromwell
Why did Parliament offer the infamous regicide the crown of England, Scotland, and Ireland? And to what extent was Oliver Cromwell tempted to become king?