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A lamprey, a lamprey, my kingdom for a lamprey!

Blessed are the Tea Ladies

'That Soul, which should so many Scepters sway To whom so many Kingdomes should obay, Learn'd first to rule in a Domestick way: So Government, it self began From Family, and single Man'

From appeal to permanent display: Cromwell’s Pocket Watch (c.1647) is now secured for the Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon. A tiny “Puritan Watch” with remarkable provenance – and a beautiful window into 1600s watchmaking. Read the full article here: bit.ly/4sam4Ix @MuseumCromwell @HeritageFundUK #CromwellMuseum #OliverCromwell #BritishHistory #Heritage #Museums #Watchmaking #TheMomentMagazine #Huntingdon #Peterborough

Explore Oliver Cromwell's watch during the Easter Holidays! Drop into the Museum and complete a new family friendly activity sheet to get a prize. Plus drop into Huntingdon Town Hall on 2 and 9 April from 12pm - 3:30pm to make your own version of the watch. All activities FREE.

LISTEN & READ The Royalist Capital Oxford and the civil wars In this programme, Vanessa Emmett @KelloggOx, discusses the contribution of Oxford’s citizens to the Royalist war effort between 1642 and 1646. worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/life-i…

Byron on the immortal rebel

@_FrancesOwen A Snakebite Roundhead is a good'un I quite like this suggestion too... x.com/Whomembers1630…

@Eorlhelm 😆😆 What would the equivalent be for those who romanticise the other side? Snakebite Roundheads????

Prosecco Cavalier (someone who romanticises the Cavaliers but is entirely misinformed about the British Civil Wars - to the extent it's comical...)

LISTEN Making the Protectorate the strongest naval power of the age: Robert Blake (1598-1657) - who was central to the creation of the navy which gave Britain maritime supremacy for centuries to come. To find out more, we talked with Dr Richard Blakemore. worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/making…

@AtlanticBalliol americanmind.org/salvo/stop-hat…

@PisceanMind My mistake, joke went over my heard😂

@Eorlhelm I’m not being 100% serious, was just a comment. I feel bad now

@PisceanMind Fair enough if you think that, but it’s a term widely used by historians because it accurately encapsulates the scale of the conflict. I don’t think wokeness has anything to do with it…

@Eorlhelm I’m not necessarily disagreeing, it’s nonetheless a bit woke to not just say English civil war(s)

@PisceanMind Well they were civil wars which took place across Britain, not just England. Or would the phrase ‘the wars of the three kingdoms’, to include Ireland, be even woker?

@Eorlhelm Calling them the British civil wars is pretty woke

@emswifthook Yon Plastique Parliamentarians.

@ThreeJackdawss The Cromwelllian CABAL!

Guys, remember that everything you oppose during the English Revolution was Cromwell's fault. He led the revolution from 1640 until his death, was at the centre of everything, & was the greatest social leveller in British history. (people actually believe this...)

What name for those who do the same about the Roundheads?

@serenelyjoyful Hampden who?

@Eorlhelm Pym who?

@emswifthook Good question!

Look to the Bottom of his vast Design, Wherein Man’s Wisdom, Pow’r, and Glory join; The Good he acts, the Ill he do’s endure, ’Tis all from Fear, to make himself secure. Meerly for Safety, after Fame they thirst;