Nelson was a military genius and fierce patriot, idolised by his men and the British public - and held up... more

In 1649 the English parliament proudly declared that freedom had been restored and that King and Lords had been rejected.... more

In 1646, Charles secretly left Oxford, not sure whether to appeal to the English in London, or the Scots at... more

In his haste to expel the Rump which had failed so badly, Cromwell and the Army officers came up with... more

The promised land looked for so longingly by so many seemed in 1653 to be stubbornly remote. Legal reform blocked,... more

John Milton and Marchamont Nedham were unlikely bedfellows; and yet they became friends, worked closely together and in their very... more

The English Commonwealth took a very different approach to settling the threats which had faced it in 1649, and the... more

So, while the army was away, August 1649 to September 1651 what had the Rump parliament been doing to build... more

The deal struck between the Covenanters and Charles brought an invasion from the Commonwealth that faced annihalation at Dunbar in... more

The Council of State were convinced that only General Cromwell could deliver victory in Ireland; and Cromwell used this to... more