What it’s about: You know you’ve made it when your head has its own Wikipedia page. Of course, it helps if your head’s been separated from your body. That’s what happened to Oliver Cromwell, though he ...

Research has shown that such was the violence displayed by Cromwell and his forces during the Siege of Drogheda and the subsequent Siege of Wexford that, even by 17th-century standards, they can be ...