About Miranda

Miranda is a historian specialising in the history of Oliver Cromwell, his family and the Civil Wars and Commonwealth period. She studied at Cambridge University, leaving with a PhD, and is a long-standing Trustee of the Cromwell Association. 

Miranda is the author of two acclaimed historical novels about the Cromwell family, The Historical Writers' Association Crown Award long-listed THE PURITAN PRINCESS (2020) and THE REBEL DAUGHTER (2022). Her new history THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL (out September 2026) is her first work of non-fiction.

Miranda writes for many publications, appears frequently at literary festivals and on TV and radio, is a regular judge of the HWA Crown Awards, and co-hosts the podcast 1666 and All That. 

If you would like to work with Miranda, please contact her agent Emma Bal at the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.