These articles, all of which have been published in Cromwelliana – the journal of the Cromwell Association. They have been selected as those most useful for studying Cromwell and the period. There is a brief synopsis each article as an introduction. At the end of each article is a link to a pdf or Word version.

Kingship and Religion New essays

• ‘The public profession of the nation’: religious liberty and the English Church under Oliver Cromwell by Prof. Ann Hughes
• The Monarchical Republic of Oliver Cromwell by Dr David Smith
• Was Cromwell an Independent or a Congregationalist? by Dr Joel Halcomb
• ‘Our House of Lords’: Oliver Cromwell, the nobility and the other House by Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons
• Monarchical Cromwellians and the Restoration by Dr Miranda Malins

Reasons for the Parliamentary victory

• Small-scale operations during the Civil War by Prof. Peter Gaunt
• Cromwell’s Whelps: the death of the New Model Army by Dr David Appleby
• Cromwell’s contribution to Parliament’s military victories, 1642-51 by Dr Prof. Peter Gaunt

The search for settlement 1646-49 and the reasons for failure

• King killing no murder, Cromwell in 1648 by John Morrill (1998)

New ideas and religious radical groups

• The social and economic impact of the English Civil War on Catholics, 1642-48 by Simon Stevens (2001)
• Did the Civil War and its aftermath to 1660 offer any lasting new opportunities to women? by Heather Delonnette (2001)
• Revolution and Restoration: the effect on the lives of ordinary women by Sarah Jones (date unknown)

Political experiments 1649-58 and the reasons for failure

• Oliver Cromwell and Parliament by Professor Blair Worden (2013)
• Cromwell and the Regicides by Dr Patrick Little (2011)
• The lies of the Regicides? Charles 1’s judges at the restoration by Dr Jason Peacey (2011)
• Bicameralism in the 1650s by Prof. Ivan Roots (date unknown)
• Oliver Cromwell, Kingship and the Humble Petition and Advice by Roy Sherwood (1999)
• Tension between the Rump and the army 1649-53, and Cromwell’s ejection of the Rump by Lee Wood (date unknown)

Cromwell’s foreign policy (including multiple kingdoms)

• Cromwell’s Foreign Policy and the “Western Design” by Timothy Venning (date unknown)
• The religious context of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland by Professor John Morrill (2014)
• Oliver Cromwell: a Scottish perspective by Dr Laura A M Stewart (2012)

Role of Cromwell and his aims and motivation

• Oliver Cromwell by Rt. Hon. Frank Dobson MP (1999)
• Oliver Cromwell – A personal biography by Michael Byrd (1996)
• Oliver Cromwell: an interpretation by B. Gordon Blackwood (1989)
• Oliver Cromwell and Honour by Professor J C Davies (2013)
• To what extent were Oliver Cromwell’s actions Machiavellian? by Jack Graham (2011)
• Dear Robin: The correspondence between Oliver Cromwell and Robert Hammond by Dr Miranda Malins (2012)
• Farmer Oliver? The Cultivation of Cromwell’s image during the Protectorate by Dr Patrick Little (2012)
• Oliver Cromwell and the People of God by Dr David L Smith (2013)
• Cromwell and the Historians by Prof. Peter Gaunt (2013)
• From Civilian to Soldier: Recalling Cromwell in Cambridge, 1642 by Dr Sue L Sadler (2012)

Failure of the republic and the restoration settlement

• The failure of the ‘Good Old Cause’ by Graham E. Seel (date unknown)
• Reviling regicides: the King killers in popular culture by Dr Lloyd Bowen (2011)