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5 giorni fa · This reviewer broadly shares these perspectives, largely concurs with the warm interpretation of Cromwell and more generally of the parliamentary cause found here and is sympathetic to the liberal, reformist outlook portrayed so positively in this volume and from which it springs.
1 giorno fa · 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. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and latterly as a ...
- Soldier and statesman
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- pre-1642 (militia service), 1642–1651 (civil war)
- Robert Cromwell (father), Elizabeth Steward (mother)
3 giorni fa · Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) rose up from lowly beginnings in Putney to become King Henry VIII’s right hand man. From the 1520s Cromwell, then a successful London businessman, leased a large house from the friary. It was three storeys high, had fourteen rooms and a garden. Map of Tudor London showing the Austin Friars monastery, from Layers of ...
4 giorni fa · Cromwell’s Legacy edited by: Jane A. Mills ... In the summer of 1656 both Richard and Henry, Oliver’s sons, became fathers of sons, both named Oliver.
18 ore fa · Death Lurks in the Dark. The war machine that so efficiently obliterated his Soviet ZIL was the little-known AC-119K Stinger gunship. The AC-119K was one of two gunship versions of the C-119 Flying Boxcar. Both the Shadow and Stinger versions of the Fairchild AC-119 were armed with four miniguns that fired through ports in the plane’s fuselage.
3 giorni fa · We live in discordant times, which may be why the turbulent reign of King Henry VIII has enjoyed a revival over the last few years. We've had the gleefully trashy TV series The Tudors, the Tony-winning Broadway musical Six and – at the high end of achievement – Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Henry's right-hand-man Thomas Cromwell.
3 giorni fa · A London barrister in Henry VIII's England finds himself investigating a murder in a monastery. Hulu's new four-part series, based on C.J. Sansom's 2003 novel, feels strikingly contemporary.
