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NEW VIDEO: The Decapitated Head that Changed England (Patreon)

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2024-10-25 21:07:47

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Yes I know, you've been waiting patiently for a video. And you deserve a video, you deserve the world.

How about this absolutely bonkers story on the rise, Lord Protectorate, death, exhumation, dragging through the streets, postmortem execution, decapitation, head on a spike, head's time on the roof of a government building, head's multiple different owners over hundreds of years, and at last, burial, of Oliver Cromwell?

This story reminds me a TON of a topic we would have chosen to cover 5-7 years ago and made an 8 minute video about. Cromwell's name (or his head ...on a spike) have come up several times over the years, I'm sure of it. But there is something to being able to make a video exactly as long, with exactly as much information as we want. These days, Caitlin tells the WHOLE STORY.

I hope you enjoy this story as much as we did diving into it.

Yours in postmortem decapitation,

Caitlin

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What Did Cromwell Do to Deserve This?

Oliver Cromwell lost his head but only after he died in his bed. Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY I Wrote Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Researcher & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair (@LandisBlair) Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp) SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Fitzgibbons, Jonathan. CROMWELL'S HEAD. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. "Cromwell's Death and Funeral Order" https://www.british-history.ac.uk/burton-diaries/vol2/pp516-530 "The Trial of Charles I" https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trial-charles-i/ "The Execution of Charles I" https://www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-house/history-and-stories/the-execution-of-charles-i/#gs.eckadk "Cromwell's Dust" https://erenow.org/biographies/cromwellourchiefofmen/27.php "Cromwell's Body" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/cromwells-body/ "What happened to Cromwell's body after his death?" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/what-happened-to-cromwell-after-his-death/ "Cromwell in Ireland" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/ireland/ "The Strange Saga of Oliver Cromwell's Head" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585591/oliver-cromwells-head-history "Flagellum, or, The life and death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwel faithfully described in an exact account of his policies and successes, not heretofore published or discovered / by S.T., Gent." https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A43211.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext "George Bate–Cromwell's Devious Physician" https://www.reformation.org/dr-george-bate.html "Oliver Cromwell and Family" https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oliver-cromwell-and-family/