Ahh, Christmas pudding. In both the past and ... bringing the English Civil War and a Puritanical power grab by Oliver Cromwell in the 1640s and '50s. He essentially tumbled the monarchy, imposed ...
Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...