Earl of Derby executed in my hometown of Bolton. There is a pub there where he last stayed and a chair apparently that he sat on. Ye Olde Man & Scythe, one of the oldest pubs.

Christmas was banned in Scotland from 1640, before Cromwell did, until 1958 (nineteen fifty eight). When i was a child elderly relations talked about going to school on Christmas Day

"I'm like a dog returning to his vomit"😂😂

'Instance of the fingerpost' would have made a good tv film/series. I really enjoyed that book.

18:22 Charles II English invasion in August 1651. This was a Scottish "foreign" army that gained little English support. Defeated at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September.

Couldn't get out of my mind that the author sounded like Elizabeth 1st from Blackadder

I'm from Ireland.
One of the worst curses that could be used here was "The curse of Cromwell on you!"/"Mallacht Chrombhéil ort!"
His memory was still hated up to the 1950s. However his attack on the town of Drogheda, though ruthless, involved the slaughter mostly of his enemies from England, who had fled to that town. The brave defence of the town of Clonmel impressed Cromwell so much that he agreed to allow the native defenders march to the coast and thereafter to France following their surrender.
PS "Cromwell" is in fact a gaelic name ie "Crom-bhéal" meaning "Turned-down mouth" referring to a "Turned-down Mustache" probably.

A group called Ye Slayde spread a secret Christmas song around England in 1654. Not a lot of people know that.

I'm going to track down The Instance Of The Fingerpost, and I was delighted to learn that Tom is a fan of Roberto Calasso's brilliant The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony, my favourite book.

Honestly a cromwellian hereditary republic would look a lot like the United Provinces with the stadtholder

Had to go find Billy Braggs song.

Voltaire did a job on Cromwell in Chapts.1-4 of his 'Letters on the English' where Fox and his Quakers dis-recruited one of five of his Parliamentary recruits

Call "redistribution of land in Ireland" what it really was...the clearance of the surviving  population from their property at the end of a pike...and then to end up working as slaves in the carribean on sugar and tobacco plantations.

Came here to try and find out what happend to the nobility during the time of the republic.

How did the rule of Cromwell go over in the American colonies? How did they view the end of the monarchy?

The fire of London was a sign that royalty was very bad

All they have said is that there shall be no King.

Is it true that the horrible madsacres committed by Cromwell in Ireland, although in no way excused by but were at least in some situations, preceded by massacres committed by his opponents?

Bring him back

33:02 isn't that still the case?