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| List of Maps and Figure | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Foreword | |
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| The Unknown Oliver | |
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| Ancestry and Family Connection | |
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| The Godly Circle at St Ives | |
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| Health and Physical Appearance | |
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| Fen Drainage | |
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| The Ely Years and the Election of 1640 | |
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| Parliamentary Extremist | |
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| MP for Huntingdon (1628) and Cambridge (1640) | |
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| A Plain Cloth Suit: The Long Parliament | |
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| Politics and Religion | |
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| Ireland on Fire | |
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| Thunderclouds of War | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Apprenticeship to War | |
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| Minor Scuffles: Norwich, Crowland, Grantham, Burley House and Gainsborough | |
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| Staring Defeat in the Face | |
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| linceby to York | |
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| iarston Moor | |
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| The Army New Modelled | |
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| The Second Battle of Newbury (27 October 1644) | |
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| Oliver's Quarrel with the Earls | |
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| Self-Denying and New-Modelling: Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army | |
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| Naseby | |
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| Langport and the West | |
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| War by Other Means, 1646-8 | |
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| The Slough of Despond | |
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| Arresting the King and Invading London | |
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| Putney: The Debate on England's Future | |
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| Rendezvous and Mutiny at Ware | |
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| Reconciliation | |
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| Rumours of War | |
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| Revolution, Regicide, Republic | |
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| The War of the Engagement (1648) | |
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| The Battle of Preston | |
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| Revolution | |
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| The Trial of Charles I | |
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| Republic | |
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| Twice-Born Oliver | |
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| Conversion | |
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| Providence | |
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| An Elect Nation | |
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| Anti-Catholicism | |
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| Pfanitive Providence | |
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| Providential Pragmatism | |
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| Reformation of Manners | |
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| Reformation of the Church | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Crushing the Levellers and Conquering Ireland:The Republic Year One | |
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| The Leveller Mutinies | |
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| Preparing for Ireland: Finance and Logistics | |
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| Contents | |
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| Rathmines | |
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| Drogheda | |
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| Waterford | |
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| Kilkenny and Clonmel | |
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| The Cromwellian Legacy | |
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| Dunbar to Worcester: The Crowning Mercy | |
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| The Battle of Dunba | |
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| The Battle of Worcester | |
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| Cromwell the Soldier | |
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| A Greedy Puritan? Oliver Cromwell and Money | |
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| Pay | |
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| Land and Honours | |
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| Financial Self-Denial | |
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| Marriages | |
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| Our Chief of Men | |
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| The Aftermath of Worcester | |
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| The Expulsion of the Rump Parliament | |
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| Barebone's Parliament | |
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| The Instrument of Government | |
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| King in All but Name? Lord Protector 1654-8 | |
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| Rule by Protector and Council | |
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| The First Protectoral Parliament, September 1654-January1655 | |
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| Swordsmen and Decirnators: The Reign of the Major-Generals | |
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| The Second Protectoral Parliament, September 1656-February 1658 | |
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| 'Your great enemy is the Spaniard': Cromwellian Foreign Policy | |
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| Law Reform | |
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| Religion | |
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| A Second Written Constitution: The Humble Petition and Advice | |
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| Horse Breeder and Patron of the Arts? Poetry,tPainting, Performance and Political Thought under the Protectorate | |
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| Outdoor Recreations: Falconry, Hunting, Riding | |
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| Music | |
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| Sculpture, Furniture, Tapestries and Paintings | |
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| Science and Education | |
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| Political Thought | |
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| Poets and Poetry | |
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| Conclusion: Oliver's Plain Style | |
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| Quietus: Death, Funeral, Legacy | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Beading | |
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| Index | |