The new display features items kindly loaned from Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge, where Cromwell’s head is buried today. Oliver Cromwell died of natural causes on September ...

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Like any historic city, Cambridge has its fair share of gruesome, gory, and ghostly tales. There is a tale to tell on practically every corner – some requiring a bit of imagination to believe ...

The story of Oliver Cromwell's head is perhaps the most bizarre, yet least well known, of all tales from English history. From regal burial to exhumation and decapitation, this relic of our only ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England ... The bodies were buried under Tyburn gallows (near the modern Marble Arch). Cromwell's head is believed to be buried at Sidney Sussex ...

The “Oliver” Pepys refers to is the same Oliver ... by digging up his corpse and cutting off the corpse’s head. Cromwell’s now-severed head was placed on a pike over Westminster Hall ...

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 ...