Few stories are as thrilling as those of the early settlers. These people were tough, hardy, and in many cases, brave. They endured all that the frontier could throw at them. Some couldn’t ...

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 ...

The first postmodern joke in the House of Commons was allegedly in Oliver Cromwell’s speech ... Ronald Hutton’s superb second ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th April 1599. He was the second son of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and his wife ...