James Sherborne gave his entire academic career to the University of Bristol. He was
appointed to an assistant lectureship in the Department of History under Professor David …

This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in
the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and …

Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War.
Beginning with James I, the first Scottish king of England, it tracks an era of massive …

The view of the 'long'fifteenth century which held the field until the middle of the twentieth
century, and was most famously embodied in Shakespeare's two tetralogies, was of a …

Until the foundation of the'New Model Army on 11 January 1645, England had not
experienced the presence of a standing army since the departure of the Romans. There had …

Gerald Simms was descended from Ulster Plantation stock, the eldest of three sons of a
County Donegal solicitor (a brother, George, was to become Church of Ireland primate) …

A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed
historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English …

The Elizabethan epoch has long been regarded as a period in which England, isolated from
the rest of Europe, fell behind the Continental powers during an era of" military revolution." …

Musical life in Britain between the wars underwent enormous change. The period saw the
coming of age of the gramophone and the cinema, and the birth and rapid development of …

The fiscal and military shortcomings of the early Stuart regime have figured prominently in
recent historiography, and have formed part of some influential explanations for the outbreak …