Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions
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Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions

7:06 Jan 29, 2026
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Send a textToday 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 
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