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BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Parliamentarians and royalists come to blows in 1648’s battle of Preston, a Civil War clash that ended in defea ...
“Charles failed to let others take the blame when things went wrong – a trait we might find admirable today, but which was disas ...
“It’s not so much that the Covenanter rebellion destabilised an otherwise well-functioning regime in England. Rather, it exposed ...
BRIDGEMAN IMAGES X2 SELLING OFF THE CROWN JEWELS Charles I / Crown jewels O ne of the many characteristics of any political revo ...
Hampton Court and Greenwich, busily inventorying precious royal goods they would never have expected to look on in their lifetim ...
GETTY IMAGES X3 (HERITAGE IMAGES, DE AGOSTINI, BRIDGEMAN IMAGES), ALAMY X2 Hubert le Sueur’s equestrian statue of King Charles ...
The imperial crown, dating from the Tudor period Used by Charles I at his coronation in 1625, it is shown here in a 1631 paint ...
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CROMWELL GOD’S EXECUTIONER The massacre of thousands of soldiers and civilians by the New Model Army at Drogheda in 1649 ranks a ...
GETTY IMAGES/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Robert Walker’s portrait of Oliver Cromwell in 1649. Cromwell showed no mercy during his attack on ...
Cromwell rallies his men during the attack on Drogheda Cromwell / God’s executioner “The scale of the killing was unprecedented. ...
I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much i ...
Cromwell’s troops are shown killing women and children in Drogheda in September 1649 Cromwell / God’s executioner GETTY IMAGES m ...
The Story Of The Tudors 55 GETTY IMAGES/SUPERSTOCK RM CROMWELL HERO OR VILLAIN? Labelled everything from a towering champion of ...
Cromwell / Hero or villain? “He became more recognisable to more people than all but a handful of English monarchs” O liver Crom ...
CROMWELL THE VILLAIN, THE HERO, THE SOLDIER... AND THE TANK Over the years, Oliver Cromwell has been immortalised in numerous di ...
Cromwell / No Christmas A s the year 1645 limped towards its weary close, a war-torn England shivered beneath a thick blanket of ...
59 A 14th-century stained glass window in All Saints church, York, showing the nativity. By the 17th century, Puritans were equa ...
Cromwell / No Christmas Following the outbreak of full-scale Civil War between king and parliament in 1642, John Taylor became o ...
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