Oliver Cromwell: Statesman, soldier, Puritan, Lord Protector and friend of the Jews Our English Zion: Jews and Puritans in Cromwell's Era Contemporary accounts show that European Jewish intellectuals in the 1650s saw Cromwell’s philosemitism and his efforts to readmit Jews in England as proof that the great man was on a godly mission to save Jews and establish Zion – both in England and in the ancient boundaries of Israel. ‘Our English Zion’: Jews and Puritans in Cromwell’s E

A Marvellous Garden the garden is a luscious lover crushed wine on lips the dark-eyed junco's throat full of whistles and trills the walnut tree’s throbbing roots and flower-tipped branches spice beds the scent of jasmine on stone ‘it is the purest of humane pleasures’ the windchime’s tinkling brass the honeyed bees’ amaranthine drone amorous perfumes in a bloodhot sun venus fly waspish purring hum avian shrieks carnivorous triffids dart out as you pass, a lashing sting

Sailing to Bermuda (with Andrew Marvell) Selected images stand as themselves: not in a living but in an enamelled world -- Raymond Williams A godly remnant in an English boat on a mazy sea row to the new world with the old one in their laps. They sing songs of Eden replanted, of prelapsarian nights and greener days, of a milk and honeyed land where eternal spring enamels everything and the shores are slick with amber. Where lacquered melons fall at our feet, an