{"id":20952,"date":"2023-01-08T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T09:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=222343"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:35:09","slug":"life-under-cromwell-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/life-under-cromwell-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 08 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>The 11 years between the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and the restoration of his son, Charles II, in 1660 are among the most turbulent in all of British history \u2013 and it was a period dominated by one man: Oliver Cromwell. But was it always Cromwell\u2019s intention to execute Charles I? Why did he decide to readmit Jewish people to England? And did he really ban Christmas? Professor Ronald Hutton responds to your top questions on the rise and rule of the contentious Lord Protector.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-222343-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/EVinterregnum-46a1d09.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/EVinterregnum-46a1d09.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/EVinterregnum-46a1d09.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Ronald Hutton is the author of <em>The Making of Oliver Cromwell<\/em> (Yale, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-making-of-oliver-cromwell-ronald-hutton\/17462767?ean=9780300257458&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Making-Oliver-Cromwell-Ronald-Hutton\/dp\/0300257457\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-making-of-oliver-cromwell\/ronald-hutton\/9780300257458#:~:text=In%20this%20remarkable%20new%20work,was%20poised%20to%20take%20power.&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spencer Mizen Published: Sunday, 08 January 2023 at 12:00 am The 11 years between the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and the restoration of his son, Charles II, in 1660 are among the most turbulent in all of British history \u2013 and it was a period dominated by one man: Oliver Cromwell. 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