Soldiers block MPs from entering Parliament, revealing Cromwell's regime tightening its grip on power.
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A sharp look at how Cromwell's failing health turns the Protectorate into a succession problem.
King Cromwell turns the Protectorate's succession problem into a tight political knot. The piece lays out the three camps plainly: Puritan radicals, the army and its allied MPs, and the civilian moderates who want a hereditary head of state to steady the Commonwealth if Cromwell…
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