13/11/2025
Throwback Thursday!
Did you know Oliver Cromwell was ‘executed’ two years AFTER his death?
He died on 3 September 1658, aged 59 due to complications from a form of malaria. 2 years later, he was exhumed and executed. His body thrown into a common grave and his head placed on a spike outside Westminster Abbey where it would stay for nearly 20 years.
That’s the level of loathing that Cromwell inspired in his 17th-century enemies, and that his name still provokes in some places today, particularly Ireland.
Cromwells invasion of Ireland in 1649 was bloody. Historians argue it was primarily to punish the Catholic Irish country and commit atrocities, which led to a huge transfer of power and wealth from Irish Catholics to English Protestants.
To learn more about Cromwell, you can visit the sources below which I used for this video
sources: www.olivercromwell.org, history.howstuffworks.com, www.rmg.co.uk,
www.cambridge-colleges.co.uk
