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Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration by Allen French 9780367626594
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1955 and based on research of public records and other contemporary sources, this book builds up an excellent picture of England before the Civil War. Through a series of case studies, it examines the type of person who emigrated... -
The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England J. T. Cliffe 9780367625429
RRP: £28.99£25.09Originally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated... -
Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies by Cristina Leon Alfar 9780367700379
RRP: £39.99£35.06The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies tell a story of Mistress Bourne's petition for divorce, its resolution, and the ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about... -
The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde by Elizabeth Butler
RRP: £64.00£61.27This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of... -
The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by W. E. Minchinton
RRP: £81.99£71.30Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as... -
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement by Patrick Collinson
RRP: £41.99£36.75Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for 'a further reformation'. It tells the... -
The House of Lords During the Civil War by C. H. Firth
£107.01Originally published in 1910, this book traces the political role of the House of Lords during the first half of the seventeenth century, from its early years of defending the constitution against the crown, and the subsequent conflict with the Lower... -
King Charles, Prince Rupert and the Civil War: From Original Letters by Charles Petrie
£93.60Until this book was published in 1974, many of the letters in this book between Charles I Prince Rupert his nephew and the leading Royalist commander had never been published. From a mainly private collection, the letters give a fascinating insight into... -
Puritans in Conflict: The Puritan Gentry During and After the Civil Wars J. T. Cliffe 9780367625863
RRP: £28.99£25.09Originally published in 1988, and the companion book to The Puritan Gentry, covering the period of the Civil War, the English republic and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, this book gives an account of how the godly interest of the Puritans... -
Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-Century Literature by James Emerson Phillips
RRP: £80.00£62.29This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Property, Liberty, and Self-Ownership in Seventeenth-Century England by Lorenzo Sabbadini
RRP: £35.00£27.90The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. This book traces the emergence and evolution of self-ownership over the course... -
The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635-1642 Leonie James (Royalty Account) 9781783273867
RRP: £70.00£67.64The Lambeth and Croydon Palace accounts for William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, represent the only extant record of the archiepiscopal household during his tenure in office. Spanning the period from December 1635 to January 1642, they offer a unique... -
Devon Household Accounts, 1627-59, Part I - Sir Richard and Lady Lucy Reynell of Forde House, 1627-43, John Willoughby of Leyhill, 1644-6, and S by Todd Gray
RRP: £25.00£23.94These records, of three gentry families from east, west and south Devon, are remarkable for their richness and diversity and provide a unique insight into seventeenth-century life. They illustrate every aspect of the running of the household including... -
Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature by Sophie Vasset
RRP: £85.00£74.51Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of... -
Politics and the Bench: The Judges and the Origins of the English Civil War by W. J. Jones
RRP: £31.99£28.33Although there have been many studies of the English revolution and its more dramatic trials, until this book was published in 1971, little attention had been paid to the Long Parliament's attempts to impeach a number of judges. This book describes how... -
Insolent Proceedings: Rethinking Public Politics in the English Revolution by Peter Lake 9781526165008
RRP: £90.00£78.81Insolent proceedings brings together leading scholars working on the politics, religion and literature of the English Revolution. It embraces new approaches to the upheavals that occurred in the mid-seventeenth century, in daily life as well as in... -
Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars by David Brown 9781526131997
RRP: £85.00£60.57This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland... -
The Irish Parliament, 1613-89: The Evolution of a Colonial Institution by Coleman A. Dennehy 9781526133359
RRP: £85.00£60.17The Irish parliament was both the scene of frequent political battles and an important administrative and legal element of the state machinery of early modern Ireland. This institutional study looks at how parliament dispatched its business on a... -
Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution Ian Gentles 9781350375864
RRP: £28.99£24.64This well-rounded study of Oliver Cromwell does equal justice to the public and private lives, political career, military abilities and passionate religiosity of a key figure in British History. Ian Gentles synthesizes much recent research into... -
Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution Ian Gentles 9781350375871
RRP: £90.00£76.50This well-rounded study of Oliver Cromwell does equal justice to the public and private lives, political career, military abilities and passionate religiosity of a key figure in British History. Ian Gentles synthesizes much recent research into... -
The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution John Rees 9781839763151
RRP: £30.00£25.50At the very start of the English Civil Wars, very few could have imagined that the country would soon become a republic. Yet just a decade later, King Charles I stood trial for treason, and was executed, in one of the most radical and incendiary acts of... -
Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts, 1589–1619 Jemma Field 9781526182500
RRP: £30.00£25.50Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal... -
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660 Alice Hunt 9780571303199
RRP: £25.00£16.59A biography of a daring and an unprecedented decade: the 1650sEvents moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell,... -
Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches Carol Ann Lee 9781789465846
RRP: £16.99£14.44On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group... -
Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches Carol Ann Lee 9781789465839
RRP: £20.00£13.10On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group... -
Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England Sam Fullerton 9781526175908
RRP: £85.00£74.51Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom’s mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to... -
Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town Michelle D. Brock 9781526160904
RRP: £85.00£72.25Using a wide range of archival material and a microhistorical approach, Plagues of the heart explores the formation, practice and performance of protestant identity amid the interlocking crises of the seventeenth century. Taking the southwestern port... -
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief Ronald Hutton 9780300278941
RRP: £25.00£20.92The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but... -
Politics without Parliaments: 1629-1640 Esther S. Cope 9781032611082
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1987 Politics without Parliaments discusses the period 1629-40 which preceded the English Civil wars. It focuses on the responses of local leaders in the towns and counties to the personal rule of Charles I who dissolved parliament in... -
Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers: An anthology of intrepid journeys for every day of the year: Volume 4 Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849949194
RRP: £22.95£15.43Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing.Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself somewhere else with the newest anthology in the...