were taken down from Parliament's walls, along with five photos of former Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. And a few days later the new Government too removed portraits of the Duke of Wellington ...

On September 17, 1656, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, addressed the English Parliament to lay out his foreign policy, and he began by asking the most basic political questions: Who are our ...

Oliver Cromwell died in 1658 ... They did not believe he could rule effectively. Parliament refused to listen to the demands made by the army for reforms. In 1660, fearing an uprising from ...

Join Mark Steel as he charts Cromwell's course through British history; his election and resignation from parliament, the formation of his New Model Army, the overthrow and subsequent execution of the ...

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 ...