A true individual: Oliver Cromwell, hero and villain

Teaching History;  March 1, 2004 ;   Poyntz, Nick;   787 words ......Victorians saw Cromwell as a potential...memory of the Lord Protector. It was not until...Victorian period that Cromwell was fully rescued...quick to claim Cromwell for their own...to compare the Lord Protector to the military...example, portrays Cromwell as a man ...

Historical Notes: Oliver Cromwell, king without a crown

The Independent - London;  April 30, 1999 ;   Roy Sherwood;   599 words ......stereotypical image of Cromwell as Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658 is...of the fact that as Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell not only functioned...his investiture as Lord Protector in December 1653 Cromwell was entertained by...

The father of our democracy or a WAR CRIMINAL? 350 YEARS ON, OLIVER...

The Mirror (London, England);  September 6, 2008 ;     787 words ......War and became Lord Protector during the only...this week that Cromwell died, yet his...a man who, as Lord Protector, was the closest...warts and all . Cromwell has always been...Civil War, in 1649 Cromwell was third to sign...Scotland followed. Cromwell was made ...

'Fortuna' as political image in three poems on Cromwell. (Oliver Cromwell)

ANQ;  April 1, 1994 ;   Lawson, Bruce;   787 words ......Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector appeared in a collection...his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector Of England, Scotland, and Ireland shortly after Cromwell's death, a time when Cromwell's panegyrists had compelling...and omission, highlighting Cromwell's undisputed ...

Travel: At home with Oliver Cromwell The Roundhead leader was born 400...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 25, 1999 ;   MARTIN THOMPSON;   787 words ......400th of the birth of Oliver Cromwell, self-seeking tyrant or champion...mission was to delve into the Lord Protector's East Anglian roots and...some 30 years was home to Cromwell as a schoolboy, land-owning...famous son - I uncovered a Cromwell Cinema but not a single statue...town of St ...

Travel: The anti-hero of Huntingdon Four hundred years after the birth of...

The Independent - London;  April 24, 1999 ;   Donald Hiscock;   787 words ......of Parliament, Oliver Cromwell doesn't have much in...towns connected with Cromwell are doing their best...awareness of the man who was Lord Protector of England for five...that claim the closest Cromwell association are Huntingdon...place, and none of the Cromwell- ...

KING OLIVER! A new TV series shows Cromwell as a brutal war criminal. In...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 7, 2001 ;   Hattersley, Roy;   787 words ......told me about Oliver Cromwell. And, because he had...biased account of the Lord Protector's life and times. What...is his description of Cromwell's dying moments. The...barbarous times, but Cromwell added the priests in...living shields and that Cromwell himself boasted of the...fire ...

Elementary, Watson A little sleuthing untangles mystery of Cromwell's head

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 30, 1996 ;   DAVID SMYTH;   787 words ......to Oliver Cromwell, who from 1653 to 1658 was Lord Protector of England...centuries after Cromwell's death...secret. The Lord Protector had been...In 1649, Cromwell had King...subsequently became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth...

Echomemories - Beheaded and hanged, but where does Cromwell's body lie?

The Northern Echo;  February 28, 2007 ;   Keith Proud;   787 words ......death, Oliver Cromwell was posthumously...England's former Lord Protector and where did...body of Oliver Cromwell after his death...places of the Lord Protector's headless body...Coxwold.Oliver Cromwell - loved by some...in authority, Cromwell's third ...

Cromwell's bad day in Alnwick; Letter to be sold.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  June 28, 2007 ;     432 words ......famously frosty, but Oliver Cromwell seemed to be having...London and shows the Lord Protector with his guard down...on his death in 1658. Cromwell stopped over in the...servant to doe his will. Cromwell also criticises his...Christie's spokesman said Cromwell's son married ...

Was Cromwell a revolutionary hero or a genocidal war criminal?

The Independent - London;  September 4, 2008 ;   PAUL VALLELY;   787 words ......350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death yesterday was marked...book which suggests that the Lord Protector's reputation should be reassessed...God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland...of the 150 biographies of Cromwell published over the past century have been ...

Oliver Cromwell: Soldier: the Military Life of a Revolutionary at...

History Today;  January 1, 2005 ;   Roberts, Stephen K.;   699 words ...Oliver Cromwell: Soldier The Military Life of a Revolutionary...THE MAKING OF BIOGRAPHIES of Oliver Cromwell there is no end. Whether stimulated...public continue to devour lives of the lord general and lord protector with an appetite that seems never...biographical fare already on offer. ...

Cromwell, Richard

The Kings and Queens of Britain;    JOHN CANNON and ANNE HARGREAVES;   128 words ...Cromwell, Richard, b. 4 Oct. 1626, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier; m. Dorothy, da. of Richard Major...On his father's death in September 1658, he took over as Lord Protector. His manner was conciliatory and dignified, but effective...When the army resolved to recall ...

Cromwell, Oliver

The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;    ROBERT WELCH;   136 words ...Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), opposition MP under Charles I...commander in the Civil War. He ruled Britain and Ireland as Lord Protector from the end of 1653 until his death. In Ireland he is remembered...confiscation of Catholic lands [see plantations ]. Gaelic poets of Cromwell's time saw ...

Behind myth of Cromwell.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  May 3, 1999 ;     96 words ...OLIVER Cromwell was a good guy, a Drogheda historian...massacres of men, women and children by Cromwell's army. It's just mythological bunkum...of indiscriminate slaughter by the Lord Protector are nothing more than legend. Reilly...findings are contained in a new book Cromwell: An Honourable ...