The UK has had a turbulent history, but it reveres all of it on the theory ‘Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it’.
History is our heritage. Oliver Cromwell is an example of why a nation does not erase its roots or it will rot.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Oliver-Cromwell/
Popular culture
Despite his death over 350 years ago, to this day Cromwell continues to provoke a strong reaction following his significant role in a dramatic and troubled period of British history. He has prompted numerous monuments, films, television and radio programmes and been broadly referenced throughout popular culture, from being the codeword to warn of an imminent German invasion of Britain in 1940 to Monty Python’s 1989 Oliver Cromwell and more recently the 2004 single by Morrissey, Irish Blood, English Heart. However Winston Churchill’s suggestion to name the British battleship HMS Oliver Cromwell when he was First Lord of the Admiralty did not gain royal approval, funnily enough!
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Winston Churchill was right!!!!”
They're still sore over one lousy decapitation. Heck, Cromwell wouldn't even make the leaderboard at an ISIS tournament these days.