An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteent...

This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative persp...

Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellio...

The Reformation was, in many ways, an experiment in conversion. English Protestants urged a chang...

This book offers an interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the Eng...

A detailed examination of the poet John Skelton's satirical assault upon Cardinal Wolsey.

The first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson's Politica, 1660 89.

An intellectual biography of the Scottish theologian and political theorist Samuel Rutherford (16...

This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies.

A new perspective on the Scottish troubles in the crisis years of 1637 41

An account of the emergence of local partisan politics in the century after the English Civil War.

An exploration of the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution in England, 1550...

A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America.

A revisionist account of the career of Elizabeth I's 'favourite', the 2nd Earl of Essex.

Sir Matthew Hale (1609-76) was the greatest common lawyer of his age, and the most universally ad...

A major study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England.

A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

A revisionist account of Irish history under the Tudors.

This is the second and final part of an intellectual biography of the English republican, Algerno...

This is the first comprehensive study of the House of Lords in the reign of Charles II. It examin...

The aftermath of the Popish Plot and the subsequent succession crisis of the years 1678 to 1681 a...

It is common practice for West Indian parents, typically the mother first, to migrate to the USA ...

A study of popular religion in early modern England, focusing on the diocese of Salisbury.

The first full account of William III's propaganda during his reign in England, 1689 1702.

Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded...

Religion, and Puritanism in particular, was a crucially important influence in seventeenth-centur...

This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies...

Drawing upon vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this study challenges traditional ...

In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outst...

An appraisal of the religious policies of the final years of Henry VIII's reign.

First detailed account of the later Elizabethan parliaments, their activities and importance.

This is the first history and analysis of the intelligence and espionage activities of the regime...

A study of centre-local interaction during a very turbulent period in English history.

This study describes for the first time the most neglected site of political, religious and liter...

An examination of different aspects of women's activities in litigation in sixteenth-century Engl...

Studies conformity to the Church of England after the Reformation.

This book discusses the origins, impact and aftermath of the Civil War in Warwickshire.

An evaluation of the intellectual legacy in England of the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575 1624).

An alternative account of the so-called 'succession crisis' in the first decade of the reign of E...

An investigation into the 'Constitutional royalists' and their role in the English Revolution.

Detailed account of the later Elizabethan parliaments, their activities and importance.

Paperback edition of a prize-winning account of the reign of King James VI and I.

An analysis of the political crisis leading to Charles I's personal rule in England.

The story of the English Reformation from the viewpoint of ordinary people and their parishes.

This work engages in the historical debate about the reasons for London's freedom from serious un...

Childhood in Question explores the historical developmentfrom the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhoo...

This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship, the 'Family of Love', in sixtee...