Your students will respond to this hands-on-history presentation of the execution of a reigning king and the plotting and intrigues surrounding Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Letters to and from Oliver Cromwell, a contemporary ballad sheet, journal pages from the House of Commons recreate these exciting events. Historian: John Langdon-Davies. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• The “Cruel Necessity” and After
• The Protectorate
• Honest John
• John Milton
• Ireland and Scotland
• Abroad
• The End of It All

• Cromwell trampling on Error and Faction — an engraving.
• Letter to Cromwell from John Lilburne and Richard Overton, 1649.
• “Strange Predictions” — a contemporary ballad sheet.
• Pages from the journal of the House of Commons recording the dismissal of the Long Parliament.
• Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Praise-God Barebone.
• Petition from John Milton to Commissioners for Sequestration.
• “A Looking-Glasse for a Drunkard” — a broadside.
• Dr. Dorislaw’s Ghost, Presented by Time to un-mask the Vizards of the Hollanders” — a broadside.
• “A List of all the Victories, and successful Atchievements of the Parliament’s fleet” — a broadside.
• Royalist playing cards satirizing the Commonwealth and leaders.