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Hace 4 días · Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.
Hace 2 días · Thomas Cromwell ( / ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
Hace 3 días · Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN: 9780333688960; 288pp.; Price: £60.00. Ian Gentles’ book (a welcome addition to the British History in Perspective Series edited by Jeremy Black) is the first new biography of Oliver Cromwell in many years. The book contains significant new research, and Professor Gentles presents us with a far ...
Hace 4 días · In 1990 John Morrill edited a collection of essays entitled Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. (1) It was based on the premise that Cromwell was too complex and difficult a subject to be best summed up by a single biographer, and so should be tackled by a team which represented the best current experts in different aspects of his personality and activities.
Hace 3 días · However, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, with a government led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Hace 3 días · Oliver Plunkett was born on All Saints Day in 1625 to a well-to-do Catholic family in County Meath, Ireland. He studied for the priesthood in Rome but did not return to Ireland when he was ordained in 1654 because the Church was being persecuted after Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the Irish uprising after the English Civil War.
Hace 3 días · The first 'half' is a chronological biographical study, which reminded me of the tone of Peter Gaunt's Oliver Cromwell, (Oxford, 1996); the second is a themed analysis, reminiscent of J. C. Davis's Oliver Cromwell, (London, 2001) as well as the latter two-thirds of Barber's work on Marten.
