After Oliver Cromwell died of “a bastard tertian ague ... placing it in a small oak box and bringing it out at gatherings. “A frightful skull it is,” a woman who saw it in 1822 later ...

He then extended the same privilege to Oliver Cromwell ... “secreted it in a chimney-corner”. When Cromwell’s skull was discovered to be missing there was a huge outcry, and the head ...

I have displayed it in front of my portrait of Oliver Cromwell, who is wearing a suit ... The peak (top of helmet) is hinged at the sides while the skull is formed from two halves that were ...

Richard Burton, visiting in the 1860s, also saw the skulls of three enemy chiefs ... Henry Ireton and Oliver Cromwell. When Charles II was restored to the throne, the corpses of those three ...

OXFORD seems to have finally lost out in the 300-year-old mystery of Oliver Cromwell's head. Scientists are now almost certain that the real skull is at his old Cambridge college, Sidney Sussex.

Oliver Cromwell, more than any other non-American figure from history, has enjoyed a rich and diverse afterlife in the United States. From the country’s early days, colonial New Englanders ...

A painting stored in an attic could be the first genuine portrait of Oliver Cromwell's mother, an historian said. The picture of Elizabeth Steward dates from the 17th Century and was bought in the ...

Over the centuries, the story of the burial of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell's headless body at Newburgh Priory in North Yorkshire has been myth, rumour and legend. The Wombwell family ...