Oliver Cromwell

1814

Afterwards, it was owned by various people, including a documented sale in 1814 to Josiah Henry Wilkinson, and it was publicly exhibited several times before being buried beneath the floor of the antechapel at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960.

1840

Thomas Carlyle continued this reassessment in the 1840s, publishing an annotated collection of his letters and speeches, and describing English Puritanism as "the last of all our Heroisms" while taking a negative view of his own era.

1875

On Tangye's death, the entire collection was donated to the Museum of London, where it can still be seen. In 1875, a statue of Cromwell by Matthew Noble was erected in Manchester outside the Manchester Cathedral, a gift to the city by Abel Heywood in memory of her first husband.

1890

During the 1980s, the statue was relocated outside Wythenshawe Hall, which had been occupied by Cromwell's troops. During the 1890s, Parliamentary plans turned controversial to erect a statue of Cromwell outside Parliament.

1929

"Writings on Oliver Cromwell since 1929", in Elizabeth Chapin Furber, ed.

1937

Harvard historian Wilbur Cortez Abbott, for example, devoted much of his career to compiling and editing a multi-volume collection of Cromwell's letters and speeches, published between 1937 and 1947.

1939

Changing views on British history: essays on historical writing since 1939 (Harvard University Press, 1966), pp 141–59 Lunger Knoppers, Laura.

1944

The Cromwell Tank was a British medium-weight tank first used in 1944, and a steam locomotive built by British Railways in 1951 was the BR Standard Class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell. Other public statues of Cromwell are the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, St Ives in Cambridgeshire and the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Warrington in Cheshire.

1947

Harvard historian Wilbur Cortez Abbott, for example, devoted much of his career to compiling and editing a multi-volume collection of Cromwell's letters and speeches, published between 1937 and 1947.

1951

The Cromwell Tank was a British medium-weight tank first used in 1944, and a steam locomotive built by British Railways in 1951 was the BR Standard Class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell. Other public statues of Cromwell are the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, St Ives in Cambridgeshire and the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Warrington in Cheshire.

1957

James Joyce, for example, mentioned Drogheda in his novel Ulysses: "What about sanctimonious Cromwell and his ironsides that put the women and children of Drogheda to the sword with the Bible text "God is love" pasted round the mouth of his cannon?" Similarly, Winston Churchill (writing 1957) described the impact of Cromwell on Anglo-Irish relations: ...upon all of these Cromwell's record was a lasting bane.

1960

Afterwards, it was owned by various people, including a documented sale in 1814 to Josiah Henry Wilkinson, and it was publicly exhibited several times before being buried beneath the floor of the antechapel at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960.

1966

Changing views on British history: essays on historical writing since 1939 (Harvard University Press, 1966), pp 141–59 Lunger Knoppers, Laura.

1980

During the 1980s, the statue was relocated outside Wythenshawe Hall, which had been occupied by Cromwell's troops. During the 1890s, Parliamentary plans turned controversial to erect a statue of Cromwell outside Parliament.

1990

"The Cromwellian Protectorate: a Military Dictatorship?" in History 1990 75(244): 207–231, .

"Textualizing and Contextualizing Cromwell", in Historical Journal 1990 33(3): pp. 629–639.

1998

"The Fall of Cromwell's Major-Generals", in English Historical Review 1998 113(450): pp. 18–37, Firth, C.H.

2000

"'Settling the Hearts and Quieting the Minds of All Good People': the Major-generals and the Puritan Minorities of Interregnum England", in History 2000 85(278): pp. 247–267, .

2002

He was selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time in a 2002 BBC poll. == Early years == Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599 to Robert Cromwell and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Steward (buried in Ely Cathedral in 1593).

2003

Canadian Journal of History 2003 38(3): 553–578.

Gateway An Academic Journal on the Web: Spring 2003 PDF) An Interview with a conservator from the Library of Congress who conserved a document that bears the signature of Oliver Cromwell Cromwell (1970) at IMDb "Oliver Cromwell – autograph letters and historical documents 1646–1658","Oliver Cromwell, Collection.

2008

The Big Question: Was Cromwell a revolutionary hero or a genocidal war criminal?, The Independent 4 September 2008. The Cromwellian Catastrophe in Ireland: an Historiographical Analysis (an overview of writings/writers on the subject by Jameel Hampton pub.

2009

"The Reputation of Oliver Cromwell in the 19th century", Parliamentary History, Oct 2009, Vol.

2012

Cromwell's Legacy (Manchester University Press, 2012) online review by Timothy Cooke Morrill, John.




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