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The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Miranda is a writer and historian specialising in the history of Oliver Cromwell, his family and the politics of the Interregnum period following the Civil Wars. She studied at Cambridge University, leaving with a PhD, and is a Trustee of the Cromwell Association. Miranda has written two historical novels about the Cromwell family published by Orion Fiction: The Puritan Princess (2020) and The Rebel Daughter (2022). She also contributes features and book reviews to publications including History Today, the Critic, BBC History, Aspects of History, Historia and the journal Cromwelliana.
Together with Paul Lay, Miranda hosts the podcast ‘1666 And All That’ on 17th century history and has appeared herself as a guest on many radio shows and podcasts including Talk Radio Europe, BBC Bristol, Wythenshawe FM, History Hack, Not Just the Tudors and Versus History. Miranda also enjoys giving talks at literary festivals, museums, schools and book clubs. Her most recent interview about the Cromwell family portraits filmed at the Cromwell Museum was broadcast online as part of the BBC’s current Art the Made Us series. Miranda is now working on a new non-fiction book about the Cromwell family and writing the chapter on Oliver Cromwell for Iain Dale’s forthcoming book Kings & Queens (Hodder & Stoughton, September 2023).
Miranda lives in Hampshire with her husband, young sons and cat Keats and hopes to continue to bring the seventeenth century to a wider audience through her work.
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