A historic bust in the UK parliament’s art collection has been moved in a bid to thwart whoever has been turning the sculpture of Oliver Cromwell to face the wall. An alarm has also been fitted to ...

The last weeks of Oliver Cromwell's life were marked by a roller coaster of illness. From the beginning of August 1658, the man who (briefly) abolished the British monarchy complained of sharp bowel ...

A gilt copper plate that once adorned the corpse of Oliver Cromwell is going up for auction. The plaque sports a detailed engraving of the arms of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, ...

Charging into battle at the head of his cavalry, Oliver Cromwell was often in the thick of the fighting during the English Civil War. And in many of those fearsome clashes he would have been astride ...

Oliver Cromwell was born, educated and spent half his life in Huntingdon and he had his first brief foray into politics in the town An exhibition about Oliver Cromwell's home town has raised the ...

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 ...

What it’s about: You know you’ve made it when your head has its own Wikipedia page. Of course, it helps if your head’s been separated from your body. That’s what happened to Oliver Cromwell, though he ...

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 Protestant, and ...

The Puritans had a lot of rules, mostly banning everything fun! But do you know exactly what was banned and what was allowed ...

The Royalists used the cookbook to paint Oliver and Elizabeth Cromwell as commoners unfit to rule the kingdom. Cromwell Museum via Facebook The death of Oliver Cromwell, the embattled Lord Protector ...

A grade I listed manor where Oliver Cromwell's daughter Elizabeth once lived with her husband has been put on the market for £1,800,000. The political leader frequently visited Northborough Manor, ...

It's not every day that we end up talking about Oliver Cromwell, except when it's a paddleboat sinking on its way to Ireland. This tweet, however, purporting to be a page from a Ladybird book about ...