• Thumbnail for Oliver Cromwell's head
    a "moral certainty" that the head was Oliver Cromwell's, based on a study of the head and other evidence. Oliver Cromwell, born on 25 April 1599, led the...
    30 KB (4,111 words) - 18:58, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oliver Cromwell
    throne, after which Cromwell's body was removed from its resting place in Westminster Abbey and displayed at Tyburn. Cromwell's head was placed on a spike...
    142 KB (16,758 words) - 19:53, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Head on a spike
    Fitzgibbons, Jonathan (2008). Cromwell's Head. Kew: The National Archives. ISBN 978-1-905615-38-4. "London Bridge head spikes: From 1300 to 1660". London...
    5 KB (575 words) - 23:11, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir Oliver Cromwell
    Sir Oliver Cromwell (c. 1562 – 28 August 1655) was an English landowner, lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between...
    17 KB (1,598 words) - 23:05, 26 March 2024
  • Charles I to Parliament (in 1647) "handed ... over to Oliver Cromwell and his warts" refers to Cromwell's famous instruction to Peter Lely to paint him "warts...
    5 KB (590 words) - 12:11, 4 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Richard Cromwell
    England, Scotland and Ireland and the son of the first Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Following his father's death in 1658, Richard became Lord Protector...
    21 KB (2,354 words) - 22:18, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Cromwell
    Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598 –1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and...
    18 KB (2,265 words) - 23:58, 23 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Henry Cromwell
    grandson of Henry Cromwell, contributed a great number of his grandfather's letters); Oliver Cromwell's Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and his sons...
    27 KB (3,710 words) - 18:54, 10 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
    leader Oliver Cromwell, who was among the first students, although he never graduated, dropping out after his father became ill. Oliver Cromwell's head was...
    34 KB (3,219 words) - 09:02, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Cromwell
    leader Oliver Cromwell was the great-grandson of Sir Richard Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell's nephew. Portrait of a Young Man, perhaps Gregory Cromwell, Hans...
    97 KB (11,279 words) - 08:37, 9 May 2024