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CROMWELL’S HEAD

A Deposed King’s revenge

The story of Oliver Cromwell (right) and his victory in the English Civil War is bloody enough, but the tale of what became of him after his death is positively morbid. He died from natural causes in 1658 and it wasn’t long before the monarchy was restored. Charles II took public and symbolic revenge on Cromwell’s corpse, by decapitating it and displaying the head on a spike. It’s a story of macabre fascination as well as of our shifting attitudes to the Puritan ruler and Lord Protector – hero to some, villain to others. My5

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