Timewatch · SEASON 6

Faces of Cromwell

Episode 2 · 1987-02-12

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Episode overview

Views of Oliver Cromwell vary as much today as when Parliament asked him to become King in 1657: a tyrant, a repressed religious bigot who murdered a king; a patriot, civilised with a tremendous sense of humour, and conscience in matters of state and religion. How do modern historians view the parliamentarian who some have called the greatest Englishman?

60 minutes

Season 6 episodes