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Cromwell's Head: The Death and Afterlife of Oliver Cromwell
On this day, 30 January 1661, the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw, and Henry Ireton were hung at Tyburn, before their heads were hacked off and impaled on poles mounted on Westminster Hall. It was the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649. Watch this video to find out what happened to Oliver Cromwell's head over the next 300 years.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:35 Part 1: Death
2:33 Part 2: Executing the Regicides
4:31 Part 3: (After)life of the Party
7:22 Part 4: Myth and Conspiracy
To find out more about the grimly fascinating story of Oliver Cromwell's death, funeral, postmortem execution, and the adventures of his head, visit the 'Cromwell's Head' exhibition at the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, which is on display until 30 March 2025.
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Cromwellian Conversations 34: Interview with Tom Reilly on Cromwell and Ireland
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Tom Reilly is an Irish local historian and writer, who for the last 30 years has written on Cromwell's infamous campaign in Ireland in 1649. Compared to many of his countrymen, Tom has a positive view of Cromwell, causing some controversy with his views. In this video he discusses his take on Cromwell with Museum Curator Stuart Orme, as well as the experience of fictionalising Cromwell's story ...
Cromwellian Conversations 33: 'By the Sword Divided' Review
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In 1983 (40 years ago this year) the BBC showed a Sunday evening costume drama set during the Civil Wars of the 1640s, 'By the Sword Divided'. The drama ran for two series, covering the fortunes of an extended family split on either side of the conflict from just before the war, to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. In this video, Cromwell Museum Curator, Stuart Orme, looks back at the se...
'All People One: The Putney Debates' Exhibition: Your Comment Cards
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In our exhibition 'All People One: The Putney Debates', we asked our visitors what they thought about and might change about Britain's democracy today. We received over 70 responses - thank you to everyone who came to the exhibition and shared their thoughts! Our work experience student, Lorena, went through all the comment cards, recorded the responses, and compiled them into them into this su...
Cromwellian Conversations 32: Oliver Cromwell and Ireland
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In August 1649 Oliver Cromwell arrived in Ireland with a large army and orders from the English Parliament to subjugate the country and bring it back under English control for the first time since the major rebellion in the autumn of 1641 and the Confederate Wars that followed. Over the next 9 months Cromwell pursued a ruthlessly efficient campaign, including two bloody sieges at Drogheda and W...
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
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In March 2023, to celebrate the launch of the new 3 volume edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters, Writings and Speeches (published by Oxford University Press), a special event was held at Huntingdon Town Hall, organised in association with the Cromwell Museum. Members of the academic team who had collated amd edited the volumes introduced selected items from the volumes, which were then read by ...
Cromwellian Conversations 31: The Blazing World
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Historian Jonathan Healey has just published a new book on Seventeenth Century England, 'The Blazing World', providing a witty, thought provoking and well researched overview of the period that includes high politics and domestic detail. Here he's in conversation with the Cromwell Museum's Curator Stuart Orme on his new book, covering such topics as the obession with moral bans in the 1600s, pa...
Cromwellian Conversations 30: The Levellers
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In November 1647 a group of men sat down in St Mary’s Church in Putney to discuss the future government of the country in the wake of a brutal Civil War. Chaired by Oliver Cromwell, ordinary soldiers and civilians met with generals of Parliament’s victorious army. These ordinary people, termed Levellers by some, proposed radical ideas at the Putney Debates including for the first time the notio...
Cromwellian Conversations 29: The Museum turns 60!
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After a few month's break, the Cromwell Museum is back with a new video, this week celebrating it's own 60th birthday. Curator Stuart Orme explains how the Museum came about, in a story that also involves the Beatles, the Cuban Missile Crisis and former Prime Minister John Major...
Women of the Cromwell Family
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Explore the remarkable stories of the women of the Cromwell family through their portraits with Stuart Orme and Miranda Malins. The Cromwell Museum has a unrivalled collection of portraits of the women of the Cromwell family, three generations of whom lived through one of the most tumultuous periods of British history. Mother, wife, children and grandchildren to the man who became Lord Protecto...
'Warts and All?' Portraits of Cromwell
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He's one of the most significant, controversial and well-known figures in British history, with portraits of him rendered by some of the best known and most skilled artists of the mid-1600s... but what do paintings of Oliver Cromwell really tell us about him? This was a filmed talk and tour of some of these iconic paintings by our curator, Stuart Orme, followed by an online Question and Answer ...
Cromwell's Sword with Tod's Workshop
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A few weeks ago our friends from @tods_workshop came in to measure one of Cromwell's swords in our collection with a view to making reproductions of it. They did an excellent video of the process which you can see at: ua-cam.com/video/iqdzEAqBaSE/v-deo.html, but have very kindly gven us an extended cut version, where you can see more of the process of measuring the sword, and more of Tod and ou...
Cromwellian Conversations 28: Recreating Cromwell's Daughters; a conversation with Miranda Malins
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One of the advantages of historical novels is that they can recreate a lost world and fill in the gaps in evidence, bringing the past to life for readers. Cromwell Museum Curator Stuart Orme chats to bestselling author and historian Miranda Malins about the experience of fictionalising the Cromwell family, bringing to life Frances in 'The Puritan Princess' and now Bridget in her new novel 'The ...
Cromwell Museum Curator reviews the film 'Cromwell'
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Many people's understanding of who Oliver Cromwell was and what happened during the English Civil War is shaped by the 1970 film 'Cromwell', starring Richard Harris and Alec Guiness. Our curator, Stuart Orme, takes a look at the film and assesses what's good and bad about it from an historian's point of view...
Cromwellian Conversations 27: Back to School!
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Cromwellian Conversations 27: Back to School!
Cromwellian Conversations 26: Forgotten History: Why do more people not know about the 1600s?
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Cromwellian Conversations 26: Forgotten History: Why do more people not know about the 1600s?
How to Draw a Portrait | Painting and Portraiture Week
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How to Draw a Portrait | Painting and Portraiture Week
Why join the New Modelled Army?
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Why join the New Modelled Army?
How Civil War Soldiers used a Matchlock Musket
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How Civil War Soldiers used a Matchlock Musket
How Civil War Soldiers used a Pike
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How Civil War Soldiers used a Pike
Cromwellian Conversations 25: Things Cromwell didn't say (probably)...
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Cromwellian Conversations 25: Things Cromwell didn't say (probably)...
The Battle Of Naseby animation
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The Battle Of Naseby animation
Weeding out Witches: Witchfinding in Huntingdon
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Weeding out Witches: Witchfinding in Huntingdon
Cromwellian Conversations 24: Cromwell's Pomade Chest (the Lord Protector's Soap!)
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Cromwellian Conversations 24: Cromwell's Pomade Chest (the Lord Protector's Soap!)
Cromwellian Conversations 23: The 'Fifth Monarchists'
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Cromwellian Conversations 23: The 'Fifth Monarchists'
Cromwellian Conversations 22: 'Warts and All'? Cromwell Portraits
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Cromwellian Conversations 22: 'Warts and All'? Cromwell Portraits
Cromwellian Conversations 21: Mrs Cromwell's Cookery Book
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Cromwellian Conversations 21: Mrs Cromwell's Cookery Book
Cromwellian Conversations 20: The 'Roundhead's' Helmet?
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Cromwellian Conversations 20: The 'Roundhead's' Helmet?
Cromwellian Conversations 19: Oliver Cromwell's Hat
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Cromwellian Conversations 19: Oliver Cromwell's Hat
Cromwellian Conversations 18: Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?
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Cromwellian Conversations 18: Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?

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  • @jerryfields4837
    @jerryfields4837 8 годин тому

    i hope he meets a few Irish where he is now

  • @kein370
    @kein370 2 дні тому

    The head is not in the chapel end you see here and you can see where it probably is if you know what to look for ( and I did ask and they didn’t disagree). The story of st Nicolas church is supported by a letter from the vicars son ( if I remember correctly ) who saw 3 coffins when the church was being renovated by the brewer fuller who then sealed off the Cromwell area .

  • @jasoncornell1579
    @jasoncornell1579 2 дні тому

    I had heatd that Fairfax provided the miñitary experience for the New Model Army whilst Cromwell provided the political cover to make it happen but I've also heard he only had that political capital because of his campaigning in the Fens why is stage of his military so little known? Also u can get malaria in the Fens?

    • @CromwellMuseum
      @CromwellMuseum 2 дні тому

      Oliver Cromwell became the political leader he was due to his military prowess in the civil wars. He started off the wars as a junior cavalry officer, however he proved himself to be a good military leader and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming second in command of the Eastern Association army in 1643 and second in command to Fairfax over the New Modelled Army in 1645. With this rise in status he became more powerful politically - if it weren't for the civil wars breaking out and his talent as a military leader, he never would have risen to the station he achieved. And yes - at the time malaria (called ague) was prevalent in the marshy Fens.

  • @alansmart17
    @alansmart17 9 днів тому

    An excellent critique full of great information, with a balanced conclusion I very much agree with And yes please, let's have some new movies about the Civil War period and Cromwell's fascinating life. Just don't let Ridley Scott near any of them.

  • @willmurphy6663
    @willmurphy6663 10 днів тому

    Excellent talk, thanks

  • @tango6nf477
    @tango6nf477 20 днів тому

    Once again religion is one of the causes of a war

  • @tonyjones7372
    @tonyjones7372 24 дні тому

    Stuart, I am reading Clarendon and he mentions people being a "pensioner" what did a pensioner mean in 1700's?

  • @jimoreilly6102
    @jimoreilly6102 Місяць тому

    He was nothing. We have O Gorman and Mc Entee now😢😮😢

  • @sam7687-i9b
    @sam7687-i9b 2 місяці тому

    You should have worn the hat 🤠

  • @treblerebel2362
    @treblerebel2362 2 місяці тому

    Loving your channel fella...its brilliant.

  • @treblerebel2362
    @treblerebel2362 2 місяці тому

    2 mins see they're parasites

  • @theuofc
    @theuofc 5 місяців тому

    An excellent commentary. Well done! Do you know which child actors played the two children of King Charles (Alec Guinness). Those who played Cromwell's children are cited, but not King Charles" children. Thanks.

  • @NoleMercy-vb4qp
    @NoleMercy-vb4qp 5 місяців тому

    “Not slaves-indentured servitude so they did have legal rights” - yes the could sue their owner..who was the relative, friend or even himself the judge. Many records of cases brought to court where the plaintiff sued the plantation owner or manor lord and were further punished after the case was dismissed. Sure something on paper is better than nothing but the delineation between what was on paper and what was in practice was never that clear cut. Rape, abuse and maltreatment were common place. Death by disease in the colonies amongst the indentured was more common than not.

    • @NoleMercy-vb4qp
      @NoleMercy-vb4qp 5 місяців тому

      The military barbarity relative to the times may have been exaggerated based on what was standard to the times but the whole scale displacement of people and enhancement of the plantations made the memory of said slaughter more pronounced than perhaps earlier massacres had been even if some of the Tudor era warfare had perhaps actually been more savage

  • @CarolynMCash
    @CarolynMCash 5 місяців тому

    Bought the book. It's on my 'To Read' pile.

  • @CarolynMCash
    @CarolynMCash 5 місяців тому

    Great interview and perspective about Cromwell in Ireland as I learnt not to mention him around certain friends and relatives with Irish ancestry. I'm having a look to see if I can find Tom's non-fiction books in Australia, as I would love to read them for his perspective.

  • @andrewcoughlan3151
    @andrewcoughlan3151 5 місяців тому

    'Not all of them surely'

  • @talkbirmingham
    @talkbirmingham 5 місяців тому

    Was the Cromwell tank named after him

  • @sebuteo
    @sebuteo 6 місяців тому

    Hi Stuart & co. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for making/sharing it. I found it because I’d just started watching By The Sword Divided (via YT), only yesterday! I definitely want to get BTSD on DVD. I also have Cromwell, on DVD, and will be re-watching that as soon as time allows. I have very dim patchy memories of watching some of the By The Sword Divided series, around the age of 11-14, when it first aired. TV series and movies of this ilk - Waterloo, with Christopher Plummer & Rod Steiger, for example - birthed a lifelong passion for particular eras of history. We live not too far from Huntingdon, and have visited your museum before. We must visit again soon! Thanks, & kind regards, Seb & Teresa Palmer, March.

  • @dermodsmyth7645
    @dermodsmyth7645 7 місяців тому

    He's known as the C word in Ireland...

  • @victorydaydeepstate
    @victorydaydeepstate 7 місяців тому

    Cromwell didn't want a 30 years war in England

  • @victorydaydeepstate
    @victorydaydeepstate 7 місяців тому

    Is there a complete writings or recorded words of the Lord Protector?

  • @victorydaydeepstate
    @victorydaydeepstate 7 місяців тому

    Cromwell is a hero in the United States! No Cromwell, no United States

  • @loricampbell4174
    @loricampbell4174 7 місяців тому

    The series was amazing the way it also explored the everyday outlook, perspectives and customs of the regular people not just the powerful. Poor Dick -just wanting to serve became so divided within himself .

  • @robplazzman6049
    @robplazzman6049 8 місяців тому

    Didn't DeValera run to the German embassy the day the Austrian died and offer his condolences?

  • @Jubilo1
    @Jubilo1 8 місяців тому

    No fair history of Cromwell could exist in De Valera's theocracy.

  • @MichaelMatthys-p2m
    @MichaelMatthys-p2m 8 місяців тому

    Oliver Cromwell was a great man. We would be infinitely better off with another one like him now instead of the rubbish we have in parliament today.

    • @CarolynMCash
      @CarolynMCash 5 місяців тому

      If Oliver Cromwell was alive today he would find today's politicians far more useless than the ones he sacked in 1653, saying they 'had sat long enough, unless they had done more good, crying out "You are no longer a Parliament, I say you are no Parliament".'

  • @carlushudson1535
    @carlushudson1535 8 місяців тому

    Great interview.

  • @jimmurphy4083
    @jimmurphy4083 8 місяців тому

    Great conversation with Tom. I bought his book An honourably enemy ,on its release in Dublin, and still have it. Great to see he has written more books, which I will now have to obtain and read. Having had an Irish education his points on the bias within the education system toward Cromwell, is spot on.

    • @tomreilly8521
      @tomreilly8521 8 місяців тому

      Thanks, Jim! Tradition dies hard. 😊

  • @kirstyhatton1857
    @kirstyhatton1857 8 місяців тому

    A really interesting and balanced interview. Tom's Reilly's novel is now on my wish list!

    • @tomreilly8521
      @tomreilly8521 8 місяців тому

      Thanks Kirsty! If you do buy it, I can promise you a rollercoaster ride through OC's life. 😊

  • @allanshort8264
    @allanshort8264 8 місяців тому

    From Irish hellraiser Richard Harris playing puritanical Oliver Cromwell on film, to Irish teetotaler Tom Reilly speaking and writing impartially about the great Captain General. Times they are a changing. Now please, a video on Cromwell's Irish contemporary, Burner O'Brien, who, when asked why he sacked Cashel amidst further (claimed) attrocities, said he thought the Bishop was in residence

    • @tomreilly8521
      @tomreilly8521 8 місяців тому

      Yep Allan. Those times sure do be changing. Inchiquin (O'Brien) was a bit of a baddie. Changed sides like I change my trousers.

  • @heathcompton1336
    @heathcompton1336 8 місяців тому

    Great Interview!!!!

  • @stoker1931jane
    @stoker1931jane 8 місяців тому

    Very interesting interview with refreshing "new" evidence and a balanced view. Which in these days, of almost aggressive polarising opions, is rare. Most historical figures, these days, have lost their former (unwarranted) heroic shine. When honest research is done into their backstories, true dealings and personal held beliefs. And so it's less often, these days, that a historical and political figure starts being looked at with a more honest, balanced and thus maybe more favourable eye. And maybe in the future will be seen for what they truly were. 👋🏻 from 🇳🇱

    • @tomreilly8521
      @tomreilly8521 8 місяців тому

      Thanks Jane. Facts is facts. Nice of you to comment. 😊

  • @GaryHynes-im5di
    @GaryHynes-im5di 8 місяців тому

    Cromwell cost 18 paratrooper idiot's their lives in Warren point in 1979... sometimes it takes centuries...

  • @bjorkzhukov3638
    @bjorkzhukov3638 9 місяців тому

    By engaging in the conquest of Ireland, Cromwell threw the English republic out the window.

  • @michealferrell1677
    @michealferrell1677 9 місяців тому

    What influence does John Owen have on Cromwell? I know that he campaigned with him for a time

  • @oliverkent8429
    @oliverkent8429 10 місяців тому

    Visited last week, loved it. I went to the Falcon pub and landlady showed me the upstairs room from which Cromwell addressed troops. A great experience.

  • @breakaleg8471
    @breakaleg8471 10 місяців тому

    I do find anything about Oliver Cromwell interesting as a few hundred years ago the family of my great grandfather moved to London from Huntingdon and though I don't know too much but I doubt people would have moved such long distances and that side of my family had the gene for essential tremor which I believe Cromwell also had and have wondered if I could be related, though at the same time having Irish ancestors as well doesn't feel great. I do find it somewhat inspirational with what he achieved despite being disabled, be it with a minor disability.

  • @colmdebrun787
    @colmdebrun787 10 місяців тому

    This "Conversation" is my introduction to your youtube channel. I would rank it alongside Alec Ryrie's "Chosing Religious Attocities in Ireland" on the Gresham College channel. Professor Morrill's encounter with brolly wielding lady shows the persistence of trauma in folk memory despite distance alternatively many find disagreement intolerable. I look forward to the rest of your videos. Cromwell seems to me qualitatively different from other English and British leaders concerning Ireland despite the brevity of his visit. One aspect not covered is language. The majority spoke Irish , so tribunals conducted in English would not be comparable to any held in Britain in terms of justice. Indentures written in language understood by one party are unlikely to offer even formal protections. Perhaps this would have been a complexity toomany for the time avaliable. The Down Survey and land tenure that followed were key to much of the conflict that followed. Cromwell's curse was dispossession and poverty rather than merely the events of Drogheda and Wexford.

  • @cromwell.is.awesome
    @cromwell.is.awesome 11 місяців тому

    I like this channel cause it focuses on facts and historical accuracy not opinions

  • @theeddorian
    @theeddorian Рік тому

    Tod, you might consider a LIDAR scan of the hilt, if you do something comparable again. In archaeology we often turn to LIDAR these to scan objects to develop a 3D model.

  • @davidkellett8766
    @davidkellett8766 Рік тому

    “They are the heroes of our national story and we need to reclaim them!” Tomorrow the Sealed Knot will recreate the battle of Nantwich, a battle that marked the turning of the tide in Parliament’s favour during our civil war. Thousands will line the streets to watch and play their part in what is a celebration of Parliament’s victory. My part is to be one of the soldiers in the recreation. This video has fired me up! Now the real battle begins, more people WILL know about our civil war, starting tomorrow!

  • @maughan3061
    @maughan3061 Рік тому

    ua-cam.com/video/Ko0U7UjP_6g/v-deo.htmlsi=Ieiwn1wSh0DcVYbK ua-cam.com/video/bkJSq_m2rqc/v-deo.htmlsi=1jQhj0-ZFwtbpB82

  • @thomaspollock5709
    @thomaspollock5709 Рік тому

    He lost 2999. Soldiers in Ireland abd fir a decease that killed rge scumbag

  • @tonyjones7372
    @tonyjones7372 Рік тому

    Stuart, can I ask a question on the civil war?

  • @pe003
    @pe003 Рік тому

    I am not a historian but part of my interest is because the English civil war is relevant today. The things, the Quakers, the levelers and the diggers were working for are still yet to be achieved. We still have social inequality, people still go hungry when others can have estates, we still have serfdom it's just be shipped overseas.