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 ...

Josiah Wilkinson liked to take Oliver Cromwell’s head to breakfast parties. The broken metal spike that had been thrust through Cromwell’s skull at Tyburn, 160 years earlier, provided a convenient ...

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.

so we wouldn't want to wind it", according to curator Stuart Orme A museum which tells the story of Oliver Cromwell is hoping to acquire an "astonishingly small and beautiful" pocket watch ...