Providence Lost: Cromwell's Last Year
by Paul Lay
“The reason I wrote the book—which is called Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate—is because the period has relatively little purchase with the wider public unlike, say, the Tudors or the Victorians or the Normans. That situation is particularly puzzling because there has been so much great scholarship on this period over the last two decades”—Paul Lay, Five Books interview, December 2019.
Paul Lay, editor of History Today, recommended the best history books of 2020 for us (and the best history books of 2018 and 2019 as well).
Our most recommended books
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Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese’s Feast
by Cynthia Saltzman -
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
by Marie Favereau -
London's 'Golden Mile': The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650
by Manolo Guerci -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
by Martyn Rady -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
by Marc David Baer -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill
