Offering the Crown to Cromwell: King Oliver? Patrick Little Asks Why Parliament Offered the Infamous Regicide the Crown of England, to What Extent He Was Tempted to Take It-And Why He Finally Turned It DownIf his highness can be moved to accept of it [the crown], the services he hath ...
Thomas Cromwell, a revolution in government. In the 1530s, Cromwell introduced a nascent bureaucratic state. Instead of the government being just the private household of the king, it could become a separate set of enduring institutions. This was complemented by Henry VIII’s break with the Roma...
and James I, while representing both York and Lancaster, were “untainted”—being descendants of neither Henry IV nor Richard III. Likewise, the Victorians tended to see all history in terms of the emergence of Parliament, and the Wars of the Roses as the result of the failure of “the g...
Yuan had the mentality of a gangster, as indeed did most warlords. He quietly accumulated power within a decaying system. The death of the Dowager Empress and the murder of the Reform Emperor in 1908 resulted in a new government which excluded him, but the new rulers were so ineffective tha...
When Oliver Cromwell died in 1658 and was succeeded by his son, Richard, the regime began to collapse. One of Cromwell's generals George Monck, occupied London and arranged for new parliamentary elections. The Parliament thus was elected in 1660 resolved the crisis by asking ...