The Mark Steel Lectures- Oliver Cromwell 3/3
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Uploaded by coughsirup on Nov 30, 2008
Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of a historical figure.
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@Buffycomics the Lords were kept against his wishes by aristocratic opposition - he attempted to establish the "Other House" in the 1650s, which would have had appointed life peers as we do now, as a compromise but it was shot down by both radicals and aristocrats. Steel is clearly sympathetic but after a few centuries of heavily biased legend building by royalists its nice to see some levelling out. Also his Catholic hating is both overestimated and not unique - check William III
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@losarman I agree, he seem to try to make Cromwell look appealing to the modern day British Republican (which, if I'm not mistaken, he himself is) so he present Cromwell deep hate to all Catholics as a simply misunderstanding.
He also choose to ignore other things like the fact that the Commonwealth Republic still kept the peerage or the fact that Cromwell as Lord Protector was king in anything but name.
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04:00 LOL SPOT ON, OLIVER!!! SPOT ON!!!
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I actually found this quite funny, to my surprise.
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@losarman @Scoob505 He gave as much time to that as he did the 'slaughter' on the British mainland. What do you think he did to his enemies in England? Tickle them into submission?
although his methods seem brutal by today's standards, it has been validly argued that they werent out of step with his contemporaries.
The way he's portrayed as some sort of nazi-style Irish exterminator is frankly ludicrous. Just look at the facts objectively rather than listening to 300yr old rumours.
1 year ago 3
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Haha the Clash song at the end, very apt.
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Oliver Cromwell; all-round puritanical fanatic and a bit of a twat.
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Wait, so the king came back from the dead, shaved his head and became Cromwell's organist?
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@TheWilliamcale you added the word 'sovereign' there.
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The HURT parody is wondrous.
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AutocracyOnline 3 years ago 14
He glossed quickly over the slaughter in Ireland like it was just an aberration.
losarman 2 years ago 13