419 Cromwell and his Reputation

The History of England

David Crowther

Royal, Queen, Europe, Modern, Parliament, History, Monarchy, Early Modern, Medieval, English, England, King, Politics

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🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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"Never man was highlier extolled, and never man baselier reported of and vilified” write Richard Baxter - a contemporary of Oliver Cromwell, who was not a fan. In this he was closer to the truth than Samuel Johnson, who wearily wrote in the 18th century that "all that can be told of him is already in print.” Cromwell is makes a subject extraordinarily divisive, and extraordinarily rich, partly because, as some other clever person remarked, people find in him what they are looking for.

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0:27.7	play responsibly not available in Northern Ireland. Hello everyone, welcome back to the history of England, episode 419, Cromwell and his reputation.
0:59.8	Last time we heard about Thomas Harrison, the rise of the fifth monarchists, we heard how John Lambert then conspired with moderates in the nominated assembly to hand a mass resignation to a bemused general of the army
1:12.7	Oliver Cromwell, thereby getting rid of the nominated assembly. The deletion of said assembly
1:21.1	was part of a power play between the madly religiously extreme Thomas Harrison and the largely
1:27.2	secular-minded John Lambert.
1:29.7	It was a struggle comprehensively won by Lambert. Harrison was dispatched to the boundaries,
1:36.0	to the margins of political importance, to the sound and fury of the fifth monarchist preachers,
1:43.1	and poor old, praise God, barebones, was returned to his
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