Event Type: HA

Takes Place: 14th January 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Online

Description: Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades. Why was this period so turbulent, and why did the republic, backed by a formidable standing army, come crashing down in such spectacular fashion? In this talk, Dr Reece will address some of these questions. Dr Henry Reece is Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and was previously chief executive of Oxford University Press. He read history at Bristol University and did his D.Phil. at St John’s College, Oxford. He is the author of The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649–1660, winner of the Samuel Pepys Award Trust Prize and shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Award, and of The Fall: last days of the English Republic.

How to book: Book via Zoom link below

Price: Free & open to all. Recordings of talk will be available to HA members.

Website: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vF7TBAlFQdqNdSbjFRKBGw

Organiser: HA

Lecturer: Dr Henry Reece