God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

Cromwell told the Barebones Parliament that 'indeed there are histories that give you narratives', but went on to declare that what mattered was 'those things wherein the life and power of them lay'.

This is not a conventional biography, but a number of brilliant interpretative essays, analysing the forces which Cromwell helped to create, and which created him.

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