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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Charles II became a fugitive king whilst running from Oliver Cromwell's army after the Battle of Worcester in the year 1651.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Oliver Cromwell's Christian "New Model Army" used the sword to depose a tyrannical monarchy and establish the first parliamentary republic placing even the Crown under the rule of law.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Edward Winslow was one of the Pilgrim Fathers, who went on to represent the New England colonists to the English government and the Merchant Adventurers and ended his life as part of Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition to the Caribbean.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Opposing them were Oliver Cromwell's Puritans, the Presbyterians and Protestant non-conformists, who were supported by the merchants, the shopkeepers, and the small freeholders.
Some took part in the Whiggamore Raid of 1648, which led to Oliver Cromwell's occupation of Edinburgh and subsequent domination of Scotland.
When the English Civil War between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary Army broke out, many of Lawrence Washington's descendants supported the Royalist cause.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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I n the middle of the seventeenth century, with King Charles beheaded and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell's vengeful Protestantism unleashed the Irish people were uprooted, slain and kidnapped.
Charles II had, in 1660, returned from exile to take the throne of England following Oliver Cromwell's Puritan reign as the Lord Protector of Great Britain.
He then precedes to discuss the actual Civil War and Oliver Cromwell's reign as Lord Protector.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The Royalist cavalry once again began the battle with success, but Oliver Cromwell's Ironsides held their discipline, and defeated the royalist cavalry, before helping to destroy the royalist centre.
This satire expresses the British view that the American Revolution was inspired by the same kind of religious fanaticism that had fueled Oliver Cromwell's establishment of the Commonwealth of England more than a century earlier.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Under Oliver Cromwell's leadership, the Puritans avoided the ornate, elevating the plain and simple place of worship.
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