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Oliver Cromwell lived from 1599 to 1658. He was a politician, then became a military commander during the English Civil War, and became Lord Protector of England after the exectuiton of Charles I.

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The Cromwell Association Study of Cromwell and the wider history of the period, which includes the Civil War, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate . www.cromwell.argonet.co.uk

Oliver Cromwell Article on his life by David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College . landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/Cromwell.html

Oliver Cromwell: Lord Protector of England (1599-1658) Article on his life and the British model of government under Cromwell . www.forerunner.com/champion/X0004_3._Oliver_Cromwell.html

Oliver Cromwell Extract from the article by Richard Wilkinson in History Review March 1997. Includes a reading list www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/alevel/cromwell.htm

Constitutional Crisis in England Article discusses the early Stuarts, the Puritan revolution and Oliver Cromwell . mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/cromwell.html

Oliver Cromwell, King Charles I and the English Civil Wars Commentary, biographies, chronology of the wars and related links. freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/civilwar.htm

Thomas Macauley: On Oliver Cromwell Text from History of England, Volume I . From the Modern History Source Book. www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/macauley-cromwell.html

The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion Viewing Oliver Cromwell through the media of his day. An essay by Kevin A. Creed. etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH34/creed34.html

Cromwell's Report on the Battle of Naseby Short article and facsimile of the actual report. www.sgwilkinson.freeserve.co.uk/ocromwell.htm

Oliver Cromwell Biography of Cromwell courtesy of the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/cromwell_01.shtml

Eduard Bernstein: Cromwell and Communism (1895) Socialism And Democracy in the Great English Revolution. Online book. www.marxists.org/../../bernstein/works/1895/cromwell/index.htm