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Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions
Season 1 Episode 30
Today in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's dead body was exhumed and beheaded in revenge for his execution of King Charles I on Jan 30 in 1649. We look at how Cromwells puritanism motivated him, his disputed legacy, and Englands brief experiment with republicanism
Published on 11 months ago