Very interesting talk about an interesting group of people! John is very knowledgeable about the period, and I think modern day analogies can be great in helping people visualise the period. I have never been able to establish if 'Babylon is Fallen' (played at the start and end) is genuinely a 17th century hymn, or if it a later American abolitionist hymn. It certainly has a 'marching' feeling to it, and the lyrics are totally in keeping with millenarian 17thC themes. Thoughts Cromwell Museum folks?
I’ve been digging through the wild happenings of the English Commonwealth and period of the Radical Dissenters. Where do you see modern-day parallels between the Fifth Monarchists and modern-day political movements?
Interesting to see the names on the document and even more interesting to note that these men must have been a "tight group". You see O. Cromwell(can more than assume it's Oliver) as the third person to sign, and interesting to see H. Ireton's signature as the ninth. Upon doing my Ancestry, it was said that Oliver Cromwell's daughter Bridget had in fact married Henry Ireton. This would suggest that there were definite alliances and belief systems between them if Cromwell allowed his daughter to marry into the Ireton's would it not?
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Very interesting talk about an interesting group of people! John is very knowledgeable about the period, and I think modern day analogies can be great in helping people visualise the period.
I have never been able to establish if 'Babylon is Fallen' (played at the start and end) is genuinely a 17th century hymn, or if it a later American abolitionist hymn. It certainly has a 'marching' feeling to it, and the lyrics are totally in keeping with millenarian 17thC themes. Thoughts Cromwell Museum folks?
I’ve been digging through the wild happenings of the English Commonwealth and period of the Radical Dissenters. Where do you see modern-day parallels between the Fifth Monarchists and modern-day political movements?
Interesting to see the names on the document and even more interesting to note that these men must have been a "tight group". You see O. Cromwell(can more than assume it's Oliver) as the third person to sign, and interesting to see H. Ireton's signature as the ninth.
Upon doing my Ancestry, it was said that Oliver Cromwell's daughter Bridget had in fact married Henry Ireton. This would suggest that there were definite alliances and belief systems between them if Cromwell allowed his daughter to marry into the Ireton's would it not?
Never, ever, start a presentation (and seldom a sentence) with "so". Such Americanisms erode and corrupt our language.
Also, "one of my 'takes'"; what is that, other than American sloppiness? "One of my interpretations", surely...