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Cromwell's head
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- Book Synopsis
- In 1661 Charles II ordered Oliver Cromwell's corpse to be exhumed and decapitated. The head was displayed for over twenty years on the roof of Westminster Hall as a warning to republicans everywhere. Cromwell's Head looks at history through the eyes of Britain's first and only republican leader, telling the story of a 'headless people' forced to march to the top of the hill and marched back down again - Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden, Iraq, Afghanistan, the violent end of empire, black shirts on the march again, the coronation of Charles III.
- About The Author
- Jim Greenhalf was born in 1949, grew up in East London and worked for nearly forty years as a news and feature writer for Bradford's Telegraph & Argus newspaper. His books of poetry include Out of Passion with the Times, The Dog's Not Laughing, The Unlikelihood of Intimacy in the Next Six Hours, Blue on Blue, The Man in the Mirror, Breakfast at Wetherspoons and Dummy! He lives in Saltaire.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781739173074
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Smokestack Books, (01 September 2023)
- Weight
- 101 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 8 mm
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