Cromwelliana archives

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Contents

  • ‘All imaginable pomp and lustre’: family occasions at Cromwell’s court by Dr Miranda Malins
  • Cromwell and daughters. Financing the marriage settlements of Mary and Frances Cromwell by Dr Patrick Little
  • Cromwell – the women in his life by Julian Whitehead
  • ‘An hundred times fitter for a Barn than a Palace’: A gendered analysis of the Protectoral portraits of Elizabeth Cromwell and her daughters by Lisa Nunn
  • ‘My wife was very unquiet and uncharitable also. God forgive her!’ First-person accounts of women’s lives during the civil war by Professor Peter Gaunt
  • The political career of Edward Montagu, Second Earl of Manchester, April 1645 to January 1649 by Professor Malcolm Wanklyn
  • The siege of Crowland, October–December 1644 by Dr Clive Holmes
  • The Schools’ Essay Prize-Winner 2020 by Ethan Aho

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  • Cromwell Day Address September 2019
  • Papers from the Study Day at Lincoln June 2019:
    • The city of Lincoln during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642–1660 by Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons
    • Life in a garrisoned town: Newark, 1642–1646; A bolthole and a bastion for Lincolnshire royalists
      by Dr Stuart B Jennings
    • “It hath pleased the Lord to give your servant a notable victory…” Oliver Cromwell in Lincolnshire, 1643 by Stuart Orme
  • Oliver Cromwell in the News: April – May 1643 by Dr Clive Holmes
  • The Schools’ Essay Prize-Winner 2019
    • ‘That which you have by force, I count as nothing.’ Was the English Revolution anything more than a military coup d’état? by Christopher Conway
  • Cromwellian Britain XXIX – Thame, Oxfordshire by Vanessa Moir
  • Writings and Sources XXI Civil War Petitions by Dr Ismini Pells


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  • Oliver Cromwell and the Battle of Worcester by Professor Peter Gaunt
  • Oliver Cromwell, Regicide and Kingship, 1647–1658 by Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons
  • Oliver Cromwell and Parliamentary Government, 1649–1658 by Dr David L Smith
  • Shrewsbury Conference Day ‘A world turn’d upside down – the English Civil Wars from a regional perspective.’
  • The civil war in Cheshire: a unique experience? by Professor Peter Gaunt
  • ‘A voyage into Wales’: Revisiting Sir Thomas Myddelton’s 1644–1645 campaign by Dr Jonathan Worton
  • The Schools Essay Prize-Winner 2018 ‘Does Cromwell’s legacy have any relevance in the 21st century?’ by Ben Rhydderch
  • Cromwellian Britain XXVIII The Battle of Preston (17–19 August 1648) by Dr Mark Parry
  • Writings and Sources XX Plundering in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire by Professor Peter Gaunt

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  • The political vision of Oliver Cromwell by Dr Stephen K Roberts
  • Consistency and contrast in Cromwell’s policy towards Europe by Hugh Dunthorne
  • Cromwell’s intervention in 1655 to halt the confessional cleansing of Milton’s ‘slaughtered saints’ in Piedmont by Richard Newbury
  • ‘Permanent and inviolable’: Oliver Cromwell and the idea of Anglo-Dutch Union in 1653 by Professor Jason Peacey
  • ‘A brave, bad man’: How far do you agree with Edward Hyde’s assessment of Oliver Cromwell by Kate Dorkins (The Schools Essay Prize Winner 2017)
  • Surveys of the clergy of Huntingdonshire early in 1641 by Dr Clive Holmes
  • ‘Bestowing a visit upon that little city’: Cromwell and the taking of Peterborough, April 1643 by Stuart Orme
  • Writings and Sources XIX: An overlooked civil war battle in Gloucestershire, November 1642?
    by Professor Peter Gaunt
  • Book reviews


Contents

  • Devolution for the East of England – Again by Jonathan Djanogly, MP
  • Collecting Cromwell: how Cromwell and the civil wars have been interpreted in museums and galleries by John Goldsmith
  • The Bear Inn, Oliver Cromwell and the Committee of the Eastern Association by Dr Clive Holmes
  • Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale (1626–1698) by Serrie Meakins
  • Windsor Castle: Roundhead Fortress by David Woodhall
  • ‘Does Oliver Cromwell merit a statue outside the Houses of Parliament?’ by Rebecca Bowers (The Schools Essay Prize-Winner 2016)
  • Cromwellian Britain XXVII Cambridge by Dr Andrew Barclay
  • The radicalisation of Colonel Thomas Saunders by Prof Peter Gaunt
  • And much more…

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  • The Monarchical Republic of Oliver Cromwell by Dr David Smith
  • ‘The public profession of the nation’: Religious Liberty and the English Church under Oliver Cromwell by Prof. Ann Hughes
  • Was Cromwell an Independent or Congregationalist? by Dr Joel Halcomb
  • ‘Our House of Lords’: Oliver Cromwell, the Nobility and the Other House by Dr John Fitzgibbons
  • Monarchical Cromwellians and the Restoration by Dr Miranda Malins
  • Cromwellian Britain XXV1: Oxford by Vanessa Moir
  • Book reviews by Prof. Peter Gaunt, Vanessa Moir and Dr Patrick Little
  • And much more…

Contents

  • Oliver Cromwell and his Public Cromwell Day Address September 2014 by Prof. Jason Peacey
  • Facts, Lies and Stereotypes –the background to the collections of the Cromwell Museum Cromwell Collection Lecture November 2012 by John Goldsmith
  • Cromwell’s Generalship and the Conquest of Scotland 1650 -1651 Cromwell Association AGM Address April 2014 by Prof. Malcolm Wanklyn
  • ‘Cromwell’s whelps’: the death of the New Model Army Cromwell Study Day October 2014 by Dr David Appleby
  • ‘…looked on as a wonder, that never beheld his enemies in the face but returned from them crowned always with renown and honour…’: Cromwell’s contribution to Parliament’s Military Victories, 1642 -1651 Cromwell Study Day October 2014 by Prof Peter Gaunt
  • ‘this little Judgement which I have through my industry obtained unto, In Forraigne Countries’: Philip Skippon and the lessons learnt from contintental conflicts in the English Civil War. by Dr Ismini Pells
  • Cromwellian Britain XXV Putney, Greater London By Serrie Meakins
  • Writings and Sources XVII Minor Operations in the English Civil War by Prof Peter Gaunt
  • Book Reviews The English Civil War : A Military History by Peter Gaunt
  • The English Civil Wars : A Beginner’s Guideby Patrick Little
  • The Social World of Early Modern Westminster Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640 by Julia Merritt
  • Westminster 1640-60 : A Royal City in a Time of Revolution by Julia Merritt
  • The Last Ironsides : The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668 by Jonathon Riley
  • Reviews by Alan Turton, Nicola Turton, Dr Patrick Little and Dr Miranda Malins
  • Obituary : Ivan Roots by Dr Stephen Roberts
  • Bibliography of Books by Dr David Smith
  • Bibliography of Journals by Prof Peter Gaunt

Contents

  • Honouring Cromwell? Cromwell and Honour Cromwell Day Address September 2013 by Prof J C Davis
  • Oliver Cromwell and Parliament Cromwell Collection Lecture November 2013 by Prof Blair Worden
  • The Religious Context of the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland by Prof John Morrill
  • The Cromwellian Navy in Ireland, 1649-1653 by Dr Elaine Murphy
  • Cromwell and the Irish land Settlement by Dr John Cunningham
  • Writings and Sources XVI: ‘Your Loving Father’ – Letters from Oliver Cromwell to Henry Cromwell, 1655-1658 by Dr Joel Halcomb and Dr Patrick Little
  • Book Reviews by Dr Patrick Little, John Goldsmith and Prof Peter Gaunt
  • Bibliography of Books by Dr David Smith
  • Bibliography of Journals by Prof Peter Gaunt

Cromwelliana 2013

Contents

  • The Cromwell Association 75th Anniversary Cromwell Day Address September 2012 by Prof Blair Worden
  • Oliver Cromwell and the People of God Cromwell Collection Lecture, Nov 2011 by Dr David L Smith
  • The Cromwell Association and its Presidents by Dr Patrick Little
  • W C Abbott and the Historical Reputation of Cromwell by Dr David L Smith
  • Cromwell and the Historians by Prof Peter Gaunt
  • Memorialising Cromwell: How Cromwell has been remembered by the Association and others by John Goldsmith
  • Book Reviews by Prof Peter Gaunt, Dr Stephen Roberts, Prof Ivan
  • Bibliography of Books by Dr David Smith
  • Bibliography of Journals by Prof Peter Gaunt
  • Writings and Sources XV: New light on what Cromwell said to the officers on 27th February 1657 by Prof Peter Gaunt

Cromwelliana 2012

Contents

  • Oliver Cromwell – a Scottish Perspective Cromwell Day 2011 by Dr Laura A M Stewart
  • Farmer Oliver? The Cultivation of Cromwell’s Image During the Protectorate by Dr Patrick Little
  • Oliver Cromwell and the Underground Opposition to Bishop Wren of Ely by Dr Andrew Barclay
  • From Civilian to Soldier: Recalling Cromwell in Cambridge, 1642 by Dr Sue L Sadler
  • ‘Dear Robin’: The Correspondence of Oliver Cromwell and Robert Hammond by Dr Miranda Malins
  • Mrs S C Lomas: Cromwellian Editor by Dr David L Smith
  • Cromwellian Britain XXIV : Frome, Somerset by Jane A Mills
  • Book Reviews by Dr Patrick Little and Prof Ivan Roots
  • Bibliography of Books by Dr Patrick Little
  • Bibliography of Journals by Prof Peter Gaunt

Cromwelliana archives 1968 to 2011