English Civil War

The English Civil Wars tore families and friendships apart, setting father against son and brother against brother. Raging across England, Ireland,...

John Lilburne (1615–1657), or 'Freeborn John' as he was called by the London crowd, was an important political agitator during the English Revoluti...

A king beheaded. A monarchy abolished. And a commoner leading a republic by military rule set in their place. The wars that tore through the countr...

Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution is an original collection of primary sources from the era encompassing the political, religious, a...

Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accessi...

Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and ...

The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), also known as the Algerian Revolution, was a messy and vicious conflict between France and the Algerian...

One of the iconic moments in English history, the trial and execution of King Charles I has yet to be studied in-depth from a contemporary legal pe...

Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of t...

Fear and suspicion take root among the women of Manningtree, when the Witchfinder General comes to town... WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND...

A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954) examines the large range of political doctrines which played their part in the Engl...

The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and development of th...

This is the first book-length treatment of the ‘turncoat’ John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wal...

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical na...

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical na...

It was theology against politics. Ordinary men against changing systems of government and belief, fighting for what they believed was right. "The B...

'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY...

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and...

Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a s...