Further Reading

‘Black Tom’: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution Manchester University Press, 2007

1659: The Crisis of the Commonwealth London, 2004

A Life of the Great Lord Fairfax London, 1870

A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1660 Oxford University Press, 2002

A Military History of the English Civil War: 1642-1649 Harlow: Pearson, 2005

Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland Dublin, 2007

Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700 Oxford, 2007

Andrew Barclay, Electing Cromwell: The Making of a Politician London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011

Charles I: A Political Life Harlow: Longman, 2005

Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667 Cham, Switzerland, 2017

Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649: a Constitutional and Political Analysis Dublin, 1998

Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics, 1603-1642 Harlow: Longman, 1989

Counter-Revolution: the Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8 1994

Cromwell’s Captains: Four Great Englishmen London: Heinemann, 1938

Cromwell’s legacy Manchester University Press 2017

Decisive Battles of the English Civil War Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2006

Early Modern Wales c.1536-c.1689: Ambiguous Nationhood Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022

Early Quaker Writings 1650 – 1700 William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973

Edgehill 1642: The Campaign and Battle Moreton-in-Marsh: Windrush Press, 1995

Edgehill and Beyond: The People’s War in the South Midlands, 1642-1645 Banbury Historical Society, 1992

Edgehill: The Battle Reinterpreted Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2004

England and the 1641 Irish Rebellion Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009

England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640-42 2006

England’s Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649-1660 Oxford University Press, 2012

England’s Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax Farnham: Ashgate, 2014

Fairfax of York: The Life and History of a Noble Family York, 2001

Fairfax: General of Parliament’s Forces in the English Civil War New York, 1985

Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution Verso Books (2025)

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism Oxford University Press, 1996

God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland London: Faber, 2007

Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651 London: Routledge, 1992

Inventing a Republic: the Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653 Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997

Invisible Agents – Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain Oxford 2020

Ireland, 1641: Contexts and Reaction Manchester University Press, 2013

James Harrington: an Intellectual Biography Oxford University Press, 2019

Kingdoms in crisis: Ireland in the 1640s Dublin, 2001

London and the Outbreak of the Puritan Revolution 1961

Lostwithiel 1644: The Campaign and Battle Farnham: Pike and Shot Society, 2004

Marston Moor, 1644: The Battle of the Five Armies Pickering: Blackthorn Press, 2003

Naseby 1645: The Triumph of the New Model Army Oxford: Osprey, 2007

Naseby, June 1645 Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2002

Naseby: The Decisive Campaign Whitstable, 1995

Oliver Cromwell: King in all but Name, 1653-1658 Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997

Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Philip Skippon and the British Civil Wars: The ‘Christian Centurian’ Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004

Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49 Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004

Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution Cambridge, 2013

Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009

Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 Cambridge University Press, 1996

Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War Hardinge Simpole Publishing (2001)

Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1646-1659 Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture: Britain and Ireland 1660-1717 2009

Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 1660-1685 2005

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637–1651 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1658-1660 London: Bookmarks, 2003

Roundhead Reputations 2001, London: Penguin

Royalist Finances in the English Civil War: The Case of Lichfield Garrison, 1643-5 Midland History, 33:1 (2008)

Skippon’s Brave Boys: The origins, development and Civil War service of London Trained Bands Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1984

Soldiers and Statesmen: The General Council of the Army and its Debates, 1647-1648 OUP Oxford; First Edition (4 Jun. 1987)

Soldiers and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005

The 1641 Depositions Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014

The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion London: Pickering & Chatto, 212

The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660 Oxford, 2023

The Army of Charles II Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976

The Battle of Marston Moor, 1981 Chichester, 1981

The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s Campaigns against Scotland, 1638–1640 Cambridge University Press, 1994

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002

The Causes of the English Civil War Oxford: Clarendon, 1990

The Causes of the English Revolution Revised edition, London: Ark, 1986

The Civil Wars after 1660: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England Woodbridge, 2013

The Civil Wars Experienced: Britain and Ireland, 1638–1661 London: Routledge, 2000

The Cromwellian Protectorate Manchester UP, 2002

The best introduction to the Protectorate as a whole remains. The 1650s are often approached and understood by trying to get to grips with Oliver Cromwell, undoubtedly the key figure of that decade.

The Cult of King Charles the Martyr Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003

The Early Stuart Church 1603-1642 Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993

The English Civil War: A People’s History Perennial 2007

The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire Belknap Press (2017)

The English People and the English Revolution 1976

The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic Yale University Press (25 Jun. 2024)

The Great and Close Siege of York, 1644 2nd edition, York, 1994

The History of the Civil War (1642-1649) in Pembrokeshire and on its Borders H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London, 1937

The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood Altamira Press, 2004

The House of Commons, 1640-1660 History of Parliament, 2023

The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640–1649 Volume 68

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms London, 2013

The Journal by George Fox Penguin Classics 1999

The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Oxford University Press, 2022

The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in the English Revolution Verso Books (2 Nov. 2016)

The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution Manchester University Press (1 May 2013)

The Life of General George Monck: For King and Cromwell Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2008

The Light in Their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666 Pennsylvania University State Press, 2020

The Lord General: A Life of Thomas Fairfax London, 1938

The Making of Oliver Cromwell Yale University Press 2022

The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638–1689 Martlesham: Boydell, 2020

The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution London: Yale University Press, 2022

The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007

The Outbreak of the English Civil War 1981

The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies Oxford University Press, 2015

The Personal Rule of Charles I New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992

The Politics of the Principality: Wales, c.1603-1642 Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022

The Putney Debates of 1647 Cambridge University Press, 2001

The Quakers 1656–1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community Penn State University Press, 2018

The Quakers and the English Legal System 1660-1688 University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1988

The Quakers in Puritan England Friends United Press, 1985

The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001

The Reign of King Pym London, 1941

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown London: William Collins, 2022

The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658-1667 Oxford, 1985

The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 London, 1981

The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War Vintage (18 May 2023)

The Siege of York, 1644 2nd edn., York: William Sessions, 1994

The Social Development of English Quakerism 1655 – 1755 Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969

The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 London, 1988

The Trial of Charles I London: Penguin, 2001

The Trial of Charles I Peterborough, Ontario, 2016

Turncoats & Renegadoes: Changing Sides during the English Civil Wars Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012

Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution Cambridge, 1999

Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England University of California Press, 1995

Warrior Generals: Winning the British Civil Wars, 1642-1652 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010

Women and Quakerism in the 17th Century Sessions Book Trust, 1991