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The Nature of the English Revolution by John Morrill 9780582089426
Booksplease Price: £60.27John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or... -
Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Morrill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.79First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious,... -
South From Corregidor by Lt Comdr John Morrill 9789563101164
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £24.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789563101164Author Lt Comdr John MorrillFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Stanfordpub.comPublisher... -
South From Corregidor by Lt Comdr John Morrill 9789563101140
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789563101140Author Lt Comdr John MorrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Stanford Inversiones... -
The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited - Essays in Honour of John Morrill by Stephen Taylor 9781843838180
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history. The nature of the seventeenth-century English... -
Revolt in the Provinces: The People of England and the Tragedies of War 1634-1648 by John Morrill 9780582254886
Booksplease Price: £51.97This text caused a major stir when it was first published in 1976. Redirecting scholarly attention to the county communties, it reassessed their role in the events of the 1630s and 1640s, claiming... -
The Promotion of Knowledge: Lectures to Mark the Centenary of the British Academy 1902-2002 by John Morrill 9780197263129
Booksplease Price: £52.60To mark its centenary in 2002, the British Academy invited leading universities around the UK to host public lectures on the current state of and future prospects for a cross section of the... -
The Causes of the English Civil War by A. Hughes 9780333684757
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.99Fully revised and updated, this second edition of the standard textbook on the causes of the English Civil War provides a comprehensive guide to the historiographical debates surrounding this crucial... -
The British Republic 1649-1660 by Ronald Hutton 9780333913246
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.99The Interregnum is one of the most colourful and celebrated episodes in the history of the British Isles. Ronald Hutton's book provides a concise synthesis of recent research into this area - now... -
Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives by Patrick Little 9780230574212
Booksplease Price: £36.82Little integrates the latest research from younger and established scholars to provide a new evaluation and 'biography' of Cromwell. The book challenges received wisdom about Cromwell's rise to... -
England's Wars of Religion, Revisited Glenn Burgess 9781032921419
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The causes and nature of the civil wars that gripped the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century remain one of the most studied yet least understood historical conundrums. Religion, politics,... -
South from Corregidor by Pete Martin 9780359199495
RRP: £10.48Booksplease Price: £9.87At the outbreak of the Second World War U.S.S. Quail was in the Philippines sweeping mines to provide access for American shipping to South Harbor, Corregidor. Damaged by enemy bombs and guns during... -
Tudor England and its Neighbours by Glenn Richardson 9780333946107
Booksplease Price: £41.78This new study of Tudor international relations is the first in nearly thirty years. Adopting a fresh approach to the subject, this lively collection presents the work of a team of established and... -
The Regicides and the Execution of Charles 1 by Jason Peacey 9780333802595
Booksplease Price: £90.86The events surrounding the trial of Charles I have been remarkably understudied by historians, despite a wealth of information regarding both the proceedings and personalities involved, and... -
Reactions to the English Civil War, 1642-49 by J. S. Morrill 9780333275665
Booksplease Price: £41.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn Morrill is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge and was Fellow and... -
Justice Upon Petition: The House of Lords and the Reformation of Justice 1621-1675 by 9780367609344
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Originally published in 1991, this book traces the evolution of the House of Lords as a court for private litigation during the critically important years from 1621 to 1675. It offers new insights... -
Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485-1725 by Steven G. Ellis 9780582209633
Booksplease Price: £55.59The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often, indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of the... -
Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700 Trevor Cliffe 9780415755764
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81The latter half of the seventeenth century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and religious upheaval. Even non-conformist... -
Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700 by Trevor Cliffe 9780415067270
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08The latter half of the seventeenth century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and religious upheaval. Even non-conformist... -
The British Problem c.1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago by Brendan Bradshaw 9780333592465
Booksplease Price: £39.80This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single... -
Clarendon: Politics, History and Religion 1640-1660 by Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald 9780521379533
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67This celebrated study, first published in 1951, offers a reinterpretation of the writings and attitudes of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), best known for his History of the Rebellion and... -
The Regicides and the Execution of Charles 1 by Jason Peacey 9781349421824
Booksplease Price: £91.59The events surrounding the trial of Charles I have been remarkably understudied by historians, despite a wealth of information regarding both the proceedings and personalities involved, and... -
The Royalist War Effort: 1642-1646 by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09In this reissue of the second edition of The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 Ronald Hutton places his vivid account of the Royalist War effort in modern historical context, bringing the reader up to... -
English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime by J. C. D. Clark 9780521666275
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £41.62This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688-1832. That book arrived at the opening of a new phase in English historiography, which... -
English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime by J. C. D. Clark 9780521661805
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £100.23This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688-1832. That book arrived at the opening of a new phase in English historiography, which... -
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher 9780521349321
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.21The social history of early modern England has become a lively area of publication and debate. This volume attempts both to take stock of distinct directions in the field and to suggest fresh... -
Historians by Daniel Snowman 9781137587312
Booksplease Price: £26.60History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue... -
Voices of the Georgian Age: 100 Remarkable Years, In Their Own Words by James Hobson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Voices of the Georgian Age is the story of seventeen witnesses to the remarkably diverse Georgian century after 1720. While being very different in many ways, the voices have two things in common:... -
Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain by Nicholas Phillipson 9780521201933
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.65Originally published in 1993, this collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a... -
The Murder of King James I by Alastair Bellany
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £29.01A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years... -
Historians by Daniel Snowman 9781403988058
Booksplease Price: £43.34History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue... -
Charles I's Executioners: Civil War, Regicide and the Republic by James Hobson 9781526761842
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.05On an icy winter's day in January 1649, a unique event in English history took place on a scaffold outside of Whitehall: Charles I, King of England, was executed. The king had been held to account... -
The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn Redworth 9780300213843
Booksplease Price: £27.47On the night of March 7, 1623, the prince of Wales and the duke of Buckingham knocked on the door of the British embassy in Madrid. Their unsolicited arrival began one of the most bizarre episodes in... -
Kirk Discipline and Roman Catholicism in Early Modern Scotland Ryan Burns 9781399552370
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.97This book analyses the Scottish kirk's use of public shame to persecute the kingdom's Catholic minority. In early modern Scotland, where the national church mandated that a specially constructed... -
The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland: 1638-1651 by Martyn Bennett 9780631191551
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £39.11This book provides a fresh perspective on one of the most complex and turbulent periods in the history of the British Isles. Setting the experience of Wales, Scotland and Ireland alongside England,... -
Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler 9780199217601
RRP: £9.49Booksplease Price: £7.81Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most... -
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas 9780199247233
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £28.39How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's... -
Oliver Cromwell by Peter Gaunt 9780631204800
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.16An assessment of the man and myth, exploring the legends which surround Cromwell and the differing interpretations.About the AuthorPeter Gaunt is Senior Lecturer in History at University College... -
Murder and Monarchy: Regicide in European History, 1300-1800 by Robert von Friedeburg 9781349727230
RRP: £123.00Booksplease Price: £112.12This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of regicide in Britain and Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800 (1300-1800). Using case studies of physical assaults on kings and on members of... -
The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia during the English Civil War Trevor Cooper 9780851158334
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £59.35A full scholarly edition of Dowsing's record of his and his deputies' activities in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, 1643-4. During the Civil War, in late 1643 and 1644, the Suffolk puritan...