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#Otd 1610: Birth in Clerkenwell London Lt-Gen James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond KG PC. @tcdalumni Lord Lieutenant Ireland. 1649-50 leading commander Royalist forces V Cromwellian conquest. 1650s in exile with Charles II. Restoration; major figure! 🪦@wabbey https://t.co/HjwUFMTSR1
@Woo100 @effjayem @Hollie_Babbitt @Artemisapphire @17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @Cromwellorg @_paullay @MirandaMalins @SGMacleanauthor @Temulkar @1642Author @ConflictArchaeo @ProfTonyPollard Although it's interesting that the iconography is often recycled. Here's a 1655 engraving of Cromwell that's effectively his head photoshopped onto a Van Dyck portrait of Charles... 😀
The Cromwell museum, a JANVS|VIDAR project is on the front cover and is featured museum profile in the new issue of the @Aimuseums magazine! Working with Simon Hill @scirebroc this was our initial concept visual for the design. #cromwellmuseum #museumdesign #janvs #vidar
Y'know . . . I feel like I haven't done an introduction of sorts...so Hey!
I am Cromwell! I am a Synth, a Technological being from a species created by the wonderful mind of @VaderSan
I am here to entertain! Come say Hi and follow my streams ^^
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Ordered a Frog Girl commission off of cromwellb on https://t.co/LsYLEVP4sh, very happy with how it came out
#OnThisDay 11 October 1643 was the Battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire, where Parliamentary forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell defeated Sir John Henderson. As well as helping secure Lincolnshire, it started a partnership which would win the First #EnglishCivilWar.
#OnThisDay 9 October 1643 Parliamentary forces under the Earl of Manchester, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell were besieging Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay 29 September 1654, Lord Protector Oliver #Cromwell narrowly escaped death or serious injury in a coaching accident in Hyde Park. Equestrian portrait of Cromwell c.1657 overlooking #London from our collection. #OTD #17thCentury #history #museums
He is one of the most divisive figures of British history. But how did Oliver Cromwell die?
#OnThisDay in 1658, aged 59, Cromwell died due to complications relating to malaria and kidney stone disease: https://t.co/kZzatTYIUj
3 Sept 1658: 3pm, Whitehall, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of #England,#Scotland & #Ireland dies #otd (BM)
Tantallon Castle watercolour from 1980's showing how Oliver Cromwell's sappers stormed the outer trench & cut into V shaped Ravelin to roll cannon closer in for better impact during 12 day siege in 1651.#TantallonCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #Watercolourpainting #HistoryRebuilt
19 Aug 1648: End of the battle of #Preston #otd in which Oliver Cromwell & John Lambert defeat the #Scots forces (@MuseumCromwell /NPG)
Tantallon Castle, East Lothian (Scotland) layout sketches and finished watercolours from 1980's showing Oliver Cromwell's siege in 1651. Climbed on roof of Dovecote to get photos to trace thru for second image. (No drones in the 80's) #TantallonCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles
#otd 1654: King Charles II (pic1) rcv'd a letter from the 3rd earl of Seaforth (pic2) in which Seaforth denied trying to marry one of Cromwell's daughters. In 1662, John Maitland, 2nd earl of Lauderdale used this rumour to try to discredit Seaforth. #MacKenzie #History #Cromwell
13 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell joins forces with John Lambert at Knaresborough #otd They then proceed to defeat the #Scots at Preston 17-19 Aug (@MuseumCromwell /NPG)
Time for an odd-one-out round:
King John
Oliver Cromwell
The Restoration Duke of Lauderdale
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