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 ...
Over the centuries, the story of the burial of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell's headless body at Newburgh Priory in North Yorkshire has been myth, rumour and legend. The Wombwell family ...
The flooding from Storm Henk has revealed the outline of an English Civil War fort from the 1600s ... 400-year-old fort which was built by Oliver Cromwell's forces. The fort, which is only ...