Oliver Cromwell: Our Chief of Men

I was a guest at a reception in Parliament this evening to celebrate the launch of a research partnership between Bath, Bristol, Exeter and Cardiff Universities.

Good wine and plenty of interesting people to meet.

Here is Oliver Cromwell, standing vigilantly over the relative new public entrance to the Palace of Westminster.

Whenever I come this way I am minded to dust off my copy of Antonia Fraser's biography of him: "Oliver Cromwell: Our Chief of Men".