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Diary dates

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2024
Saturday, 19th October Annual Study Day Friends Meeting House, Oxford 10:30am

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Essay competition 2025

Open to all  students aged 16-18 years old, the question to be answered is To what extent does the personal rule by Charles I, from 1629-1640, deserve the description ‘the eleven years tyranny’?
Entries should be of no more than 2000 words and submitted to [email protected] by Friday 25th July 2025.
The prize is £250, and the winning essay will be published in our journal Cromwelliana.

University courses on the Civil War

The number of university courses that focus solely on the Civil War, Commonwealth and Protectorate is small and apparently diminishing. The Association has compiled a database of all relevant courses at UK universities together with an
article which describes the state of teaching of the early modern period in higher education.

Post Graduate Research Grant 2025

The Cromwell Association is offering a grant of up to £1500 to post-graduate students at a university or similar institution, anywhere in the world, engaged in research on any subject that is relevant to the life and legacy of Oliver Cromwell, or more broadly the British Civil Wars, the Interregnum or the Restoration. The closing date for applications is 30th April 2025, with decision announced by the end of May 2025. Full details and application (Word format) available for download here

School’s History Conference 2024
audio lectures

In late June 2024, on a very hot day in the Assembly Room of Huntingdon Town Hall, an audience of A level students, and their teachers, listened to three debates about some key questions of the mid-seventeenth century. Listen here…

Audio lectures – new civil war research

In May 2024 the Cromwell Association organised a teacher’s event at the National Civil War Centre, Newark introducing new research on the civil wars. Although devised for teachers both lectures will be of interest to a more general audience. Our thanks to The World Turned Upside Down website for recording these talks…
New understandings of Charles I’s kingship
Importance of radicalism in the 1640s

British Civil War Memorials

A fully searchable resource of memorials connected to the British Civil Wars 1639-1660, has been created by the Battlefields Trust in partnership with the Cromwell Association and six other organisations. Click here to discover more.

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And receive a free copy of the excellent brief biography of Cromwell by David Horspool, published by Penguin at £4.99, along with the latest copy of our newsletter The Protector’s Pen if you join today.

Can we take Cromwell at his word?

A debate between Professor Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol) and Professor John Morrill (University of Cambridge) which took place in October 2021 as part of an event which focussed on Cromwell’s letters and speeches. Listen here…

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