The House of Cromwell

About this book

For the first time, historian Miranda Malins chronicles the story of one of the most influential families in British history - the Cromwells. Two powerful, controversial men who had an astonishing impact on British history - Thomas and Oliver Cromwell - were commoners who came from the same family. These two men started out with nothing and ended with nothing, but not before they - and the rest of their family - had changed the face of British history, becoming architects of the early modern world in the process. In The House of Cromwell, historian Miranda Malins takes readers on an extraordinary journey through two centuries from the Wars of the Roses to the accession of the Hanoverians. This expedition through some of the important years in British history overflows with explosive family dynamics, power struggles that would determine dynastic succession, and the eruption of overlooked voices from the past - particularly those of the Cromwell women - that determined the family's fate. Family mattered above all else to Thomas and Oliver Cromwell. Without understanding the entire dynasty, however, one can never understand their impact on Britain and the world. Miranda Malins' The House of Cromwell is the first, complete history of the most unique, disruptive, creative and controversial family to rule Britain.