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Much has been written about Cromwell’s life including his descent from Thomas Cromwell‘s sister, his childhood, his rise and service as Lord Protector, after Charles I‘s execution, whilst refusing the crown. Here, as part of his afterlife, Allan Barton, on YouTube, discusses the fate of his corpse. This includes his beheading, alongside the other deceased regicides, such that his head now resides at (his alma mater) Sidney Sussex College and his body in a burial pit in London.

Barton also discusses the movement of the head over the years, almost like that of Eva Peron, together with the cumulative evidence of the head’s identity: the age, sex, facial hair and warts, similar to that in the case of Richard III’s remains.