Aaltje van Wieringen werd geboren in 1935 te Oosterbeek, waar ze tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog de slag om Arnhem meemaakte. Ze schreef gedichten en illustreerde haar eigen opstellen. Ze werd hoofd van een kleuterschool en later lerares schilderen en handenarbeid. Ze schreef diverse gedichtenbundels, kinderboeken en romans. In 2021 verscheen haar roman “Het Gemis”, in 2023 “Het Verzet” en in 2024 “De Barst”.

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, he became an independent puritan, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period.

An intensely religious man—a self-styled Puritan Moses—he fervently be...