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Articles by Oliver Cromwell
Chasing the setting sun
She was silent the entire way back from her sister‘s house. He wasn’t sure whether she was tired from a long day, sick of him hanging around for the week, or just thinking about something else. But he did know that she was upset and it tore him up inside. He had to give her some credit though — he wasn’t being the best house guest. He was dead tired from jet lag having just got off a flight from Turkey not two days prior to surprise her.
Was Shakespeare a Christian Writer?
William Shakespeare is the English-speaking world’s greatest writer. In fact he’s also very popular outside it. Very far outside it, in fact. (Which is why you really need to read the Bard in the “original Klingon”.) Shakespeare is one of the three pillars of Western literary culture, along with Homer’s works and of course the Bible.
'Oliver Cromwell and the Haunting of Ireland': a talk by Dr Sarah Covington
10-05-23 - 10-05-23, 7:30 PM - 9:00 AM Admission: ££6 Adults, £4.50 Students/Museum Members Location: Via Zoom In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest endures even today. This talk will look at the ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in Ireland in different sources, the landscape, folklore and memory - the reasons why these happened and how it reshaped Irish history in the process.
The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs
“There is nothing that doth more advance and sour a man’s misery”, the eulogist said at the funeral of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon in April 1646, “than this one thought and apprehension: that he was once happy.” Before the outbreak of the English civil war, Rawdon had been a highly successful merchant in London; his unofficial motto, “win gold and wear gold”, hints at his style. But history knows him as a leading royalist officer in the defence of Basing House.
Cromwell letter to William Lenthall
For the Honorable William Lenthall, Speaker of the Parliament of England: These. Dublin, 17th September, 1649.
Seriously impressive Medieval manor visited by Oliver Cromwell for sale in Devon
The south-west of England is brimming with historic houses, but this Medieval manor in Devon may just be the most captivating of all. Rashleigh Barton dates back to 1196 when the property's namesake family took over the estate. Renowned military and political leader Oliver Cromwell reportedly stayed here for a night – since then the bedroom in which he slept has been known as the Cromwell room.
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Dame Angela Lansbury has opened up about her marriage to Richard Cromwell. The Murder She Wrote actress was married to Cromwell for a year when she was 19 and he 35. Despite their eventual split, he remained friends with Lansbury and her second husband Peter Shaw until his death in 1960. In an interview with Radio Times this week, Lansbury revealed that she was shocked when the marriage came to an end, because at the time, she had no idea Cromwell was secretly hiding his sexuality from her.
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political...
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches, with elucidations by T. Carlyle
Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches, with elucidations by T. Carlyle
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