God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (original 1970; edition 2013)

by Christopher Hill (Author)

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"Cromwell told the Barebones Parliament that 'indeed there are histories that give you narratives', but went on to declare that what mattered were 'those things wherein the life and power of them lay'. This is not a conventional biography, but a number of brilliant interpretive essays, analysing the forces which Cromwell helped to create, and which created him."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)

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"This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ... the finest of guides to the man of the times" Tristram Hunt, The Guardian.

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1970

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Oliver Cromwell

Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron

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Restoration of the Monarchy

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'God is decreeing to begin some new and great period... What does he then but reveal himself... as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?'
John Milton, Areopagitica (1644)

'We are English, that is one good fact.'
Oliver Cromwell to Parliament, 17 September 1656

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In 1958 I wrote a pamphlet for the Historical Association, to celebrate the tercentenary of Oliver Cromwell's death.

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Oliver Cromwell lived from 1599 to 1658. During the first forty years of his life a tangled knot of problems was forming which was only to be unravelled, or cut through, in the revolutionary decades 1640-60.

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Wedgwood, C. V.

Kenyon, J. P.

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Court of Wards and Liveries

Cromwell's Panegyrick

Siege of Drogheda

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"Cromwell told the Barebones Parliament that 'indeed there are histories that give you narratives', but went on to declare that what mattered were 'those things wherein the life and power of them lay'. This is not a conventional biography, but a number of brilliant interpretive essays, analysing the forces which Cromwell helped to create, and which created him."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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