Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Oliver Cromwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oliver Cromwell. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Book Review: Belloc on Oliver Cromwell

›
The picture posted above "Cromwell and dead Charles I", painted by Paul Delaroche in 1831, is in some way the opposite of Hilaire ...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Book Review: Belloc on Charles I AND Oliver Cromwell

›
The publisher of Mysterium Press kindly sent me review copies of the next set of biographies/character studies by Hilaire Belloc: Charles ...
Monday, October 19, 2020

This Morning: Saints Henry Morse and John Southworth

›
Just a reminder that I'll be on the   Son Rise Morning Show   at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central today to continue our series ...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Preview: Saints Henry Morse and John Southworth

›
On Monday, October 19, Matt Swaim and I will continue our series of brief biographies of each of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales on the ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Gypsy Priest and the English Civil War

›
I just finished reading Elizabeth Goudge's The White Witch, a historical novel set during the English Civil War. The publisher, Hendri...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The English Republic and Religion

›
From History Today ( available now online at least): The English republic was rooted in the religious and political idealism of its vis...
Monday, September 3, 2018

The Death of His Highness, Lord Protector Cromwell

›
Three hundred and sixty years ago today Oliver Cromwell died. Ten years ago, Micheál Ó Siochrú wrote an appraisal of Cromwell's deeds...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Belloc on Laud and Cromwell, Anglo-Catholics and Puritans

›
Tomorrow on the Son Rise Morning Show Anna Mitchell and I will continue our discussion of Hilaire Belloc's Characters of the Reformati...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

The Fortnight for Freedom: St. John Southworth

›
The Archdiocese of Westminster celebrates its martyr saint today, St. John Southworth, executed for the crime of being a priest in 1654. H...
Monday, January 26, 2015

A Sad Anniversary: The Desecration of Oliver Cromwell's Tomb

›
From The Wall Street Journal  (subscription required) comes this review of Lord Charles Spencer's latest book: On Jan. 26, 1661, in ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Puritans Ban Christmas; Royalists Rebel Against Rebels

›
In this Christmas 2011 issue of the BBC History Magazine , Mark Stoyle, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton...
Monday, November 3, 2014

From Boston Witch to Catholic Saint?

›
This story from the Catholic News Agency recalls the depiction of the indentured servitude/slavery of Irish Catholics in British America ...
Monday, May 19, 2014

A Short Passage to Eternity: Blessed Peter Wright, SJ

›
Blessed Peter Wright was a Jesuit martyr in England. Born in Slipton, Northamptonshire, England in 1603, Peter reverted to Catholicism aft...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Deborah Kerr and The English Reformation

›
Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of my favorite actresses, Deborah Kerr, in 1921. You might think that there is no connection...
2 comments:
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Siege of Drogheda, September 11, 1649

›
"I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgement of God on these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands with so much innoce...
1 comment:
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Episode Nine of the The English Reformation Today

›
Today on "The English Reformation Today" on Radio Maria US, I'll cover lots of history by focusing on the religious aspects ...