We're delighted to now have tickets on sale for our Winter Lecture Series, which this year will be held online. We're very grateful to have a great range of speakers and subjects talk on different aspects of #17thCentury history! 😀Thread 1/6
On Wednesday 13 January historian @_paullay will be talking about 'Providence Lost: Cromwell's Western Design', the story of Cromwell's disastrous attempt to seize Spain's Caribbean territories and its impacts - more details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/providence-l… Thread 2/6
On Wednesday 20 January historian @17thCenturyLady will be talking about 'Sex and Sexuality in Stuart England', providing a peek beneath the bedsheets of 17th century folk and saucy secrets of the Royal Stuarts. More details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sex-and-sexu… Thread 3/6
On Wednesday 27 January novelist and historian @MirandaMalins will be talking about 'Imagining the Cromwells', the challenges of bringing historical figures to life in a novel, as she has recently with the Cromwell family. More details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-th… Thread 4/6
On Wednesday 3 February Steve Ellis & Mark Beattie-Edwards from the @SaveTheLondon project will be talking on 'London: Cromwell's 'Mary Rose'', the project to save the remarkably preserved wreck of a 17th century warship. Details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-cromw… Thread 5/6
More details on the whole series and discounted season tickets for all 4 talks can be found at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cromwell-mus…. Discounted tickets are available for members of the Friends of the Museum - details on joining the Friends can be found at: cromwellmuseum.org/support/friend… Thread 6/6
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Oliver #Cromwell is popularly believed to have been the leader of the Parliamentary cause, the 'Roundheads', during the #EnglishCivilWar. But was this really the case - has his importance for much of this period been exaggerated? Follow this thread to find out! #17thCentury 1/8
At the start of the Civil War #Cromwell was in modern terms a 'backbench MP', a very minor figure in the House of Commons. The leaders there for the Parliamentary cause were the likes of John Pym and John Hampden; the Earls of Essex & Manchester led in the House of Lords. 2/8
Likewise militarily #Cromwell was a very minor figure at the start of the Civil War in 1642, a junior cavalry officer with no military experience. Others such as the Earls of Essex, the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller commanded Parliament's armies at this time. 3/8
We're often asked if there was any connection between Thomas #Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell (many people even confuse the confuse the two). The answer is yes - the two men were related. This thread will explain how with a quick guide to the #CromwellFamily#Tudors#17thCentury 1/7
Thomas Cromwell was chief minister to #HenryVIII 1532-40. His sister Katherine Cromwell had married Morgan Williams, a Welsh lawyer. Their son Richard (c.1502-44) became a protege of Thomas, serving as a commissioner in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and as a soldier. 2/7
Richard Williams prospered, given property in Huntingdon by Henry VIII, as High Sheriff & an MP. By his death he called himself Richard Cromwell - as there was no formal way to change names for generations after the Cromwells signed legal documents 'Cromwell, alias Williams' 3/7