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#OnThisDay 29 September 1654, Oliver Cromwell narrowly escaped death or serious injury during a coaching accident in Hyde Park, the crash also causing a loaded pistol in his pocket to go off! Equestrian portrait of Cromwell c.1657 in our collection. #OTD #17thCentury

@MichaelGuest5 @17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @Cromwellorg @HistParl @DrRJWarren @_paullay @BoWSociety @EnglishCivilWar @Sealed_Knot Certainly one he never wore, as Walker was effectively photoshopping his head (artistically speaking) onto the same image from two Van Dyck portraits c.1640 (of Sir Edmund Verney and Sir Kenelm Digby, both NPG). It was then used also for one of Sir Arthur Haselrig c. 1650! (NPG)

#OnThisDay 14 September 1645 King Charles I, influenced by Prince Rupert's enemies at court, dismissed him from his service for surrendering Bristol. Rupert would subsequently demand and be exonerated by a Court Martial. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 13 September 1645 was the battle of Philiphaugh near Selkirk. Covenanter forces under Lt Gen David Leslie decisively defeated Royalist forces under the Marquis of Montrose. Images of the generals from our collection. #BritishCivilWars #WarOfThreeKingdoms #17thCentury

#OnThisDay 7 September 1642 the Royalist commander of #Portsmouth George Goring surrendered the town under generous terms to Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury Thread 1/2

#OnThisDay 22 August 1620 Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, daughter of a London fur dealer, at St Giles Church, Cripplegate. They had a devoted relationship & a family of 9 children (8 surviving infancy). Portraits in our collection. #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 18 August 1654 a committee chaired by John Disbrowe was appointed to prepare the Western Design, an attack by the Protectorate on Spanish colonial territories in the Caribbean. The strategy was misconceived and poorly planned, ending in failure. #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 17 August 1658, after a bout of ill health exacerbated by the shock of his daughter Elizabeth’s death, Oliver Cromwell's health improved enough to go riding in Hampton Court Park where he met George Fox, who said that he looked “like a dead man". #17thcentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 13 August 1659 part of Booth's Uprising, a Royalist insurrection against the republic, took place when Viscount Mordaunt declared for the King at Barnstead Down in Surrey. He only raised 80 men, who melted away as soon as government troops appeared. #17thCentury #OTD

As one of our regular followers raised that this last weekend was the anniversary of the 'Cromwell' movie in 1970, we thought we'd do a thread looking at the many actors who have played Oliver Cromwell over the last century on film & TV (not including documentaries)... 🙂1/9