Season 8 · Episode 61
419 Cromwell and his Reputation
How people have found what they are looking for in Oliver Cromwell
The History of England · David Crowther
November 24, 202444m 54s
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Show Notes
"Never man was highlier extolled, and never man baselier reported of and vilified” write Richard Baxter - a contemporary of Oliver Cromwell, who was not a fan. In this he was closer to the truth than Samuel Johnson, who wearily wrote in the 18th century that "all that can be told of him is already in print.” Cromwell is makes a subject extraordinarily divisive, and extraordinarily rich, partly because, as some other clever person remarked, people find in him what they are looking for.
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