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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 | |