11 May 2023, The Tablet

Oliver Cromwell – God's Englishman

by John Morrill

Irish Catholics were permitted to worship in private, and released from obligation to attend Protestant worship.

Oliver Cromwell – God's Englishman

Oliver Cromwell ­remembered in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, where he lived for five years in the 1630s.
photo: alamy, robin weaver

 
A comprehensive collection of all his recorded writings only adds to the paradoxes and ambivalences surrounding the life and personality of one of the most bitterly contested figures in British and Irish history / By JOHN MORRILL
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