Oliver Cromwell - Hero or Monster?

**This lesson provides students with a range of resources to help them decide if Oliver Cromwell should be labelled a ‘Hero’ or a ‘Monster’. **

-Students will be provided with easy-to-follow facts about Cromwell which they have to categorise into ‘hero’ or ‘monster’.

• They will also examine a range of historical sources about Cromwell and evaluate the reliability and usefulness of them.
• There is also an opportunity for students to complete an extended piece of writing to demonstrate their knowledge of the arguments on both sides before they give their own opinion about Oliver Cromwell.

The 18-slide lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, warm up start activities, printable resources, and learning reviews as well as engaging background information and historical sources about Oliver Cromwell.

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