What links Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, apart from the name? They were related, and for at least three centuries people have got the two confused. Both led dramatic changes to church and state. And, as Miranda Malins explains, there are other “uncanny historical parallels” between the two powerful statesmen. One of the Edwardian music hall […]
Oliver Cromwell’s daughter Frances, the ‘puritan princess’
Miranda Malins, author of The Puritan Princess, writes for Historia about the extraordinary life of Oliver Cromwell’s youngest daughter, Frances, and how we need to forget everything we thought we knew about the Lord Protector’s rule. The caricature of Oliver Cromwell’s protectorate is that it was a joyless, masculine, military dictatorship presided over by a […]