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The range of opinions of Cromwell amongst modern and historic Britons is even wider than the range of views Cromwell chose to project [a man known not only for winning a war for Parliamentary prerogative and then permanently dissolving Parliament, but also both for enforcement of extreme Puritanism and murderous repression of Catholics and and for drafting comparatively tolerant legislation on freedom of worship and allowing Jews to return to England]

The reviewer Simon Heffer, an admirer of influential historian Carlyle who put Cromwell at the centre of his 'Great Man' theories of history and did more to rehabilitate Cromwell's image in British eyes than anyone else, represents one extreme of that range of opinion.