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Places to visit
Cromwell Museum
Grammar School Walk
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire PE29 3LF
Tel: 01480 375 380
E-mail: cromwellmuseum@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Website: http://edweb.camcnty.gov.uk/cromwell
The only museum dedicated solely to Oliver Cromwell houses personal letters, family possessions, portraits and documents relating to Cromwell and his family. The museum is housed on the site of the grammar school that the Lord Protector once attended. Website contains information about books, portraits and documents, as well as an online exhibition.
The Commandery Civil War Centre
Sidbury
Worcester
During the battle of Worcester, Charles II made the Commandery the Royalist headquarters. Today, the museum has fascinating displays telling the dramatic story of one of England's most turbulent periods of history, including the trial of Charles I.
Museum of London
London Wall
London EC2Y 5HN
Website: www.museumoflondon.org.uk
The museum's Cromwell Collection is one of the largest of its kind. Formed by Sir Richard Tangye, a wealthy industrialist and passionate enthusiast for all things Cromwell, it includes many rare manuscripts and printed books, medals, paintings, objets d'art and a bizarre assemblage of 'relics', such as Cromwell's Bible, button, coffin plate, death mask (in the museum's 'Macabre London' gallery) and funeral escutcheon.
Civil War re-enactment societies
English Civil War Society
70 Hailgate
Howden DN14 7ST
Website: http://english-civil-war-society.org/public_html/index.html
The Fairfax Battalia of the English Civil War Society (ECWS) had the dubious privilege of teaching Phil Harding to handle a pike and Mick Aston a musket as part of a reconstruction of the Parliamentarians' siege of Basing House for the Time Team programme there. The ECWS is a UK-based history re-enactment group with a national membership of around 2,000. This group of friends portrays events of the period 1642-51 for the entertainment and education of the audience at public displays. The society can trace its roots back to 1972 but in its present form dates from 1980, when the two self-governing bodies that represent the opposing Royalist and Parliamentarian sides, the King's Army and the Roundhead Association, agreed to work together on a more formal basis.
King's Army
70 Hailgate
Howden DN14 7ST
The King's Army is organised in eight foot regiments and one troop of cavalry.
Roundhead Association
c/o Ms Chris Sheldon
382 Wood End Road
Wednesfield
Wolverhampton WV11 1YD
The Roundhead Association (the Parliamentarian army) is organised in four brigades, or battalia, plus support units.
Most of the units for both the King's Army and the Roundhead Association maintain their own websites; links are available from the main ECWS website. Anyone who is unable to join the English Civil War Society as an active participant can still receive regular information about the activities of the ECWS by becoming one of the Friends of the ECWS. Friends receive three newsletters a year.
The Sealed Knot
PO Box 2000
Nottingham NG2 5LH UK
Tel: 01384 295939
Website: www.sealedknot.org
Similar to the English Civil War Society, the Sealed Knot, a registered charity, stages numerous events throughout the country, 'offering you the unique chance to experience at first hand the trials of a nation at war with itself'. The Sealed Knot has been heavily involved in education for many years, giving school talks and displays about life in the Civil War throughout the UK. If your school or college is running a project on the Civil War period, the Sealed Knot can provide you with experts on everything from cookery to clothes, education and politics, through to weapons and battle strategies.
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