The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon has a new exhibit revealing a fascinating and macabre story: what happened to Oliver ...

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 ...

BBC viewers have been celebrating the return of the much-anticipated Tudor drama Wolf Hall after a nine-year hiatus.

The letter was written to an unknown male friend in 1652, saying he is "left alone" without a single friend nearby to confide in A letter in which Oliver Cromwell talks about loneliness would be ...

The notion that the 1650s were politically conservative is exemplified by the tendency of historians to fixate upon the offer of kingship to Oliver Cromwell and his increasingly monarchical appearance ...

A painting stored in an attic could be the first genuine portrait of Oliver Cromwell's mother, an historian said. The picture of Elizabeth Steward dates from the 17th Century and was bought in the ...

The London dealers Simon Dickinson have unveiled a re-discovered portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker. Interestingly, ...

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 ...

Were the monks on drugs? How The Book of Kells went fully psychedelic Spirited to Ireland to save it from the Vikings, this wild illumination of the New Testament, full of gilded curls and coils, is ...