House of Cromwell

Miranda is a 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 has been a Trustee of the Cromwell Association for over a decade. 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 seventeenth century history and has appeared herself as a guest on many radio shows and podcasts including Talk Radio Europe, BBC Bristol, 'History Hack' and 'Not Just the Tudors'.

PRAISE FOR THE REBEL DAUGHTER: Here is another superbly researched and vividly told novel about the gifted and spirited women of Oliver Cromwell's family; full of insight, detail and imaginative richness. It will be warmly welcomed, and will certainly kindle hopes for more historical fiction of this quality from Miranda Malins. ― Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of CanterburyI cannot imagine a novel that would take me closer to the heart of Cromwell's world. In Bridget Cromwell, Miranda Malins has given us an utterly convincing flesh and blood heroine, who takes us by the hand and forces us to look unflinchingly at the men and the women, the blood and the dirt, the love and the loss of the most astonishing period in English history. ― S.G. Maclean, author of the Damian Seeker seriesThe Rebel Daughter in Miranda Malins' assured second novel is Bridget, Oliver Cromwell's eldest daughter whose story brings a wholly female perspective to the bloody turmoil of England's Civil War. 'Biddy' makes an engaging companion as she leads us, clear-eyed, through the complexities and horrors of the conflict; the battles and sieges, political ferment, the beheading of the king and Cromwell's part in ruthless massacres in Ireland. Through the twisting upheavals of rebellion and interregnum, her focus is always on the welfare of her family but she yearns to play a role, like the men around her, in shaping a better future for her country. This affecting, action-packed novel brings a momentous but often overlooked period of history vividly to life. ― Carolyn Kirby, author of The Conviction of Cora Burns and When We Fall