Travel: At home with Oliver Cromwell The Roundhead leader was born 400 years ago today. Martin Thompson marches into East Anglia to find the human face of the old Ironside

The Sunday Telegraph London | April 25, 1999| | Copyright

THERE'S nothing like an anniversary to nudge you into exploring places associated with the great and not-so-great. Today marks the 400th of the birth of Oliver Cromwell, self-seeking tyrant or champion of the people, depending on your point of view.

My weekend mission was to delve into the Lord Protector's East Anglian roots and to search for some clues about the man's human side

My odyssey began in Huntingdon, which for some 30 years was home to Cromwell as a schoolboy, land-owning farmer and MP. The ancient Cambridgeshire market town seemed remarkably ambivalent about its most famous son - I ...

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