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The Mark Steel Lectures- Oliver Cromwell 1/3

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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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  • Cromwell, hero to most in England, let's check his CV shall we

    1.Sold out the Levellers and John Lilburne.

    2 Became as despotic as the executed Charles and the republic he fought for rather ironically turned into a theocracy 'God's Will',

    3. Caused massacres in Drogheda and Wexford.

    4. Outright religious nut who read one book.

    5. Puritan extremes meant he had it in for Xmas and music.

    Wow...what a hero

  • Fantastic military mind and tactical genius, but a bit of a tosser.

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  • 3:44 is that jim al khalili walking by with his kid?

  • @Malusregnum your right, why are these idiots slagging him off. I was born in Ireland but have the brain power to understand the guy was a fucking genuis

  • reason people hate Cromwell is because history is written by the victors, the royals in the end sadly. Being brought up in Galway Ireland i hated him. The reality was there was no genocide in Ireland rather a battle at a large garrison were the irish royalists who supported the english monarch were executed wich was the way the wars went back then.

    I respect him for two things hating the catholic faith because it stands for wealth, and republicanism something we Irish evolved to understand

  • His accent seems fake, like he's putting it on. 'Cor blimey gov'nor, look at 'ow workin' class I am'. He was born in the Home Counties, for fuck's sake.

  • @ZZKe7 Bigot - learn the word.

  • @tdcpm27 Paddy's? I think you mean Paddies. You're too stupid even to be a bigot.

  • @MrMarcusirish Haha, makes sense that you're a Paddy, bitterness shines through.

  • @MrMarcusirish and criticised the birthright of kings so much so that when he died his son took over from him. Ahh progress!

  • Cromwell is a troll and a good one, look at all the angry Paddy's on here, they clicked in search of potatoes.

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