J.P.Sommerville

EARLY MODERN BRITISH HISTORY
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I.  Printed material

1) Conyers Read, Bibliography of British history: Tudor period
2) G Davies and

 MF Keeler, Bibliography of British history: Stuart period
3) S Pargellis and DJ Medley, Bibliography of British history: the eighteenth century 

On the period 1603-1714 there is:

4) John Morrill, Seventeenth century Britain 1603-1714 (DA 375 M 67 - Reference Room; 2S)

Update these with:

5) Royal Historical Society Annual Bibliography: Z 2016 A 66 (Reference Rm, 2S).
This is an extremely important and useful guide to what is published each year; it lists almost everything of importance, and is very conveniently divided up by period and topic, with a good index.
You could use the 1998 CD-Rom version, available at Memorial Library Reference CD-ROM Station Rm 262., but now there is also an Online version.

  1. English Historical Documents, vols 4-10.
    Bulky Oxford UP volumes each with about 1,000 pages or so of primary material
  2. Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords: Documents 6-13 (2MS).
    Crucial for parliamentary history. These too are available online.
  3. Calendars of State Papers: Documents 34 (2MS).
    Highly important calendars, summarizing state papers. An online contents list is available
  4. Historical Manuscript Commission Reports: Documents 33 (2MS);
     there is also a more complete set on microcard in the Microform Room on the fourth floor. The General Index to the Reports is DA 25 M 252 (Reference Room; 2S). These summarize important manuscripts in private collections.
    Some of these have also been made available online at the National archive site.

 

  1. The Dictionary of National Biography (known as DNB): DA 28 D48 2 (Reference Room; 2S).
    This is a comprehensive, multi-volume work. It has recently been updated and is available to UW students by clicking the link above.
  2. Handbook of British chronology, ed. FM Powicke and EB Fryde. Precise, detailed chronological information on monarchs, bishops, dukes, earls, officials, parliaments etc.
    (An online supplement exists in The Directory of Royal Genealogical Data - useful when available but with a somewhat unpredictable server).
  3. Handbook of dates for students of English history, ed. CR Cheney. Calendars for every year; saints days; popes etc.
  4. RH Fritze, et al, eds., Reference sources in history: an introductory guide.
    Has sections on Britain.
  5. RH Fritze, ed., Historical dictionary of Tudor England
  6. RH Fritze and WB Robison, Historical dictionary of Stuart England

  7. R O'Day, ed., The Longman companion to the Tudor age
  8. John Wroughton, The Longman Companion to the Stuart Age 1603-1714
  9. Barry Coward, ed. A Companion to Stuart Britain  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003

II. Online material:

  1. Early English Books Online: access this through the Library webpage, then Electronic Texts and Multimedia Collections, then Early English Books Online.
    This is an extremely rich collection of primary sources.
  2. The Institute of Historical Research in London provides a good collection of links.
  3. The Liberty Library contains a large and growing collection of primary sources relating to political and constitutional history (and material on America and elsewhere).
  4. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook supplies many useful primary documents.
  5. The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica is a partially outdated but comprehensive source of material on English history. (It has apparently been electronically scanned into web form and not properly proof-read so there are occasional chunks of nonsense. Nevertheless, it can still be useful).
  6. The Catholic Encyclopedia is also a very useful source on early-modern religion (provided allowance is made for good, old-fashioned confessional bias).
  7. Parts of the Victoria County History - compilation of information on local history - are available online

I: 1437-1485: THE BREAKDOWN OF GOVERNMENT

Q: 'The Wars of the Roses were the result not so much of royal weakness as of "bastard feudalism"'. Discuss.

Suggested Reading

  1. J.G. Bellamy, Bastard Feudalism and the Law, London, 1989
  2. M.C. Carpenter, 'The Beauchamp Affinity: A Sudy of Bastard Feudalism at Work', English Historical Review, xcv (1980)
  3. C. Carpenter, The Wars of the Roses : Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509, Cambridge, 1997
  4. C. Given-Wilson, The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages, London, 1987
  5. M. Hicks, Bastard Feudalism, Longman, 1995
  6. M. Hicks, 'Bastard Feudalism, Overmighty Subjects and Idols of the Multitude during the Wars of the Roses', History, 85 (2000)
  7. R. Horrox, 'Service', in eadem (ed.), Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England, Cambridge, 1994
  8. K.B. McFarlane, The Nobility of Later Medieval England, Oxford, 1973
  9. K.B. McFarlane, 'Bastard Feudalism', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, xx (1945), and in K.B. McFarlane, England in the Fifteenth Century: Collected Essays, London, 1981
  10. P.C. Maddern, Violence and Social Order: East Anglia, 1422-1442, Oxford, 1992
  11. A.J. Pollard, 'The Richmondshire Gentry during the Wars of the Roses', in C. Ross, ed., Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England, Gloucester, 1979
  12. A.J. Pollard, The Wars of the Roses, London, 1988

General Introduction:

  1. CSL Davies, Peace, print and Protestantism
  2. F Du Boulay, An age of ambition: English society in the late middle ages
  3. MH Keen, England in the later middle ages
  4. JR Lander, Government and community: England 1450-1509
  5. JAF Thomson, The transformation of medieval England, 1370-1529
  6. A.J.Pollard, Late Medieval England, 1399-1509, Harlow 2000.

The Wars:

  1. JB Gillingham The wars of the Roses
  2. 'Discontent and dethronement: England and Wales 1376-1415' and 'The wars of the roses' in M Falkus and J Gillingham, eds, Historical Atlas of Great Britain
  3. RL Storey, The end of the house of Lancaster
  4. K B MacFarlane 'The wars of the roses' in Proceedings of the British Academy 50 (1964)
  5. Michael Hicks, The War of the Roses: 1455-1485. 2003

Some useful articles:

  1. TB Pugh 'The magnates, knights and gentry' in SB Chrimes, ed, Fifteenth-Century England
  2. KB MacFarlane 'Bastard feudalism' in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 20 (1945)
  3. WH Dunham 'Lord Hastings' indentured retainers', in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, 39 (1955)
  4. C Carpenter 'The Beauchamp affinity: a study of bastard feudalism at work' in English Historical Review, 95 (1980)
  5. RA Griffiths 'Local rivalries and national politics' in Speculum (1968)
  6. GL Harriss 'The struggle for Calais' in English Historical Review 75 (1960)
  7. RL Storey 'The North of England' in S.B. Chrimes, ed.  Fifteenth Century England
  8. RA Griffiths, 'The sense of dynasty in the reign of Henry VI' in CD Ross, ed, Patronage, pedigree and power
  9. SB Chrimes, ed, Fifteenth Century England

The character of the king

  1. R.A.Griffiths, The Reign of King Henry VI: The exercise of royal authority 1422-1462, Stroud 1998
  2. BP Wolffe, Henry VI (cf also his article in Chrimes ed. - 31 above)
  3. CD Ross, Edward IV (cf also his article in Chrimes ed. - 31 above)
  4. CD Ross, Richard III
  5. SB Chrimes, Henry VII (cf also his article in Chrimes ed. - 31 above)
  6. R Lockyer, Henry VII (Seminar Studies)

Also:

  1. PA Johnson, Duke Richard of York 1411-1460
  2. John G Bellamy Bastard feudalism and the law
  3. RA Griffiths, 'The king's court during the wars of the Roses' in RG Asch and AM Burke ed., Princes, patronage and the nobility
  4. SB Chrimes, Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII
  5. D Cook, Lancastrians and Yorkists (brief introduction)
  6. AJ Pollard, ed, The Wars of the Roses
  7. C Carpenter, Locality and polity: a study of Warwickshire landed society, 1401-1499
  8. A Goodman, The Wars of the Roses
  9. MK Jones and MG Underwood, The King's mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort
  10. JMW Bean, From lord to patron: lordship in late medieval England

II: 1460-1509: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT

  Q: 'The King's personality was central to political stability in the later fifteenth century'. Discuss.

[Many of the items on List I are also relevant.]

  1. David Starkey 'The age of the household' in Stephen Medcalf, ed, The later middle ages
  2. Sir John Fortescue The governance of England, ed, C Plummer The character of the kings
  1. CD Ross, Edward IV (cf also Ross's article in Chrimes, ed, Fifteenth Century England)
  2. CD Ross, Richard III
  3. SB Chrimes Henry VII

Administration

  1. GR Elton, The Tudor constitution
  2. BP Wolffe, The crown lands
  3. BP Wolffe, The royal demesne in English history
  4. Margaret Condon 'Ruling elites in the reign of Henry VII' in Ross, ed, Patronage, pedigree and power
  5. JR Lander 'Bonds, coercion and fear' in J Rowe, ed, Florilegium Historiale

Politics

  1. DAL Morgan 'The king's affinity in the polity of Yorkist England' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 23 (1973)
  2. M Hicks 'The changing role of the Wydevilles in Yorkist Politics to 1483' in Ross, ed, Patronage, pedigree and power
  3. JR Lander, Crown and Nobility
  4. R.A.Griffiths & R.S.Thomas, The making of the Tudor Dynasty, Stroud 1985

Local government

  1. AJ Pollard, North-eastern England during the Wars of the Roses
  2. SJ Payling, Political society in Lancastrian England
  3. CE Moreton, The Townshends and their world: gentry, law and land in Norfolk
  4. Tim Thornton, Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560. The Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 2000

III: HENRY VIII: POLITICAL STRUCTURES

Q: 'The politics of the reign of Henry VIII were court politics'. Discuss

  1. GR Elton, Reform and reformation
  2. EW Ives, Faction in Tudor England (Historical Association pamphlet)
  3. David Starkey 'The age of the household' in Stephen Medcalf, ed, The later middle ages
  4. JJ Scarisbrick, Henry VIII
  5. David Starkey, The reign of Henry VIII: personalities and politics
  6. GR Elton, The Tudor revolution in government
  7. C Coleman and D Starkey, eds., Revolution reassessed: revisions in the history of Tudor government and administration
  8. D MacCulloch, ed., The reign of Henry VIII. Politics, policy and piety
  9. J Guy ed., The Tudor monarchy
  10. G. W. Bernard, Power and Politics in Tudor England.  2000
  11. John McGurk ed., The Tudor Monarchies, 1485-1603 CUP 1999

Definitions and description

  1. GR Elton 'Tudor Government: the points of contact: III The Court', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1976
  2. M Girouard, Life in the English country house
  3. David Starkey 'Representation through Intimacy' in Joan Lewis, ed, Symbols and sentiments
  4. JA Murphy 'Popinjays or professionals: officers and ministers of the mid-Tudor household', Exeter Studies in History, 1981
  5. Richard Rex, The Tudors, Stroud 2002

Personalities and incidents

  1. G Bernard 'The rise of Sir William Compton, early Tudor courtier' English Historical Review, 96 (1981)
  2. G Bernard, The power of the early Tudor nobility: a study of the fourth and fifth earls of Shrewsbury
  3. GR Elton, 'Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace' in B Malament, ed, After the Reformation (also in Elton's Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government, vol 3)
  4. EW Ives, Letters and Accounts of William Brereton of Malpas, Record society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 116 (1976)
  5. EW Ives, 'Faction at the court of Henry VIII: the fall of Anne Boleyn' History 57 (1972)
  6. JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  7. David Starkey 'Igtham Mote: Politics and architecture in early Tudor England' Archaeologia, 107 (1981) -- summarized in History Today 30 (1980)
  8. Narasingha Prosad Sil 'The rise and fall of Sir John Gates' Historical Journal 24 (1981)

Court and country: a suggested interpretation

  1. David Starkey 'The political structure of early Tudor England' in M Falkus and J Gillingham, eds, Historical Atlas of Great Britain
  2. Diane Willen, John Russell, first earl of Bedford: one of the king's men
  3. David Starkey 'From feud to faction: English politics c.1450- c.1550' History Today 32, (1982)
  4. David Starkey 'Court, council, and nobility in Tudor England', in RG Asch and AM Burke ed., Princes, patronage and the nobility.

IV: 1500-1600: PARLIAMENT

Q: 'The idea of a "growth of opposition" in the Tudor Parliaments is grossly misconceived'. Discuss.

Overviews

  1. JS Roskell 'Perspectives in English Parliamentary History' in E Fryde and E Miller, ed, Historical studies of the English Parliament, vol II
  2. GL Harris 'Medieval doctrines in the debate on supply, 1610-1629' in K Sharpe, ed, Faction and Parliament -- and cf Fortescue (above II.2).
  3. J Gillingham 'Parliament, taxation and the defence of the realm' in Falkus and Gillingham, Historical Atlas of Great Britain

Examples of pre-Tudor parliamentary vigor

  1. BP Wolffe 'Acts of resumption in the Lancastrian parliaments' in Fryde and Miller, Historical studies of the English Parliament
  2. RL Storey 'Liveries and commissions of the peace, 1388-90' in FRH Du Boulay and Caroline Barron, ed, The reign of Richard II

The Tudor parliament: generally

  1. GR Elton 'Tudor government: the points of contact I: Parliament' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 24 (1974)
  2. MAR Graves, The Tudor Parliaments
  3.  MAR Graves, Elizabethan Parliaments
  4. JE Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons

Tudor Parliaments: narrative and analysis

  1. GR Elton 'The Rolls of Parliament, 1449-1547' Historical Journal 22 (1979)
  2.  JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  3. SE Lehmberg, The Reformation parliament, 1529-36
  4. SE Lehmberg, The later parliaments of Henry VIII
  5. GR Elton, Reform and renewal, esp chapters 4-6
  6. GR Elton, The Parliament of England 1559-1581
  7.  MAR Graves, The House of Lords in the parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I
  8. JE Neale, Elizabeth and her parliaments 2 vols
  9. W Notestein 'The winning of the initiative by the house of commons' Proceedings of the British Academy 11 (1924)

Critiques

  1. David Starkey 'History without politics' Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 28 (1977)
  2. Jennifer Loach 'Conservatism and consent in parliament, 1547-1559' in J Loach and R Tittler, eds, The mid-Tudor polity
  3.  GR Elton 'Parliament in the sixteenth century: functions and fortunes' Historical Journal 22 (1979)
  4. MAR Graves 'Thomas Norton the parliament man: an Elizabethan MP 1559-1581' Historical Journal 23 (1980)

and see also

  1. CSR Russell 'Parliamentary history in perspective, 1604-29' History 61 (1976)
  2. NL Jones 'Parliament and governance of Elizabethan England: a review', Albion 19 (1987), 327-46
  3. J Loach, Parliaments under the Tudors
  4. D Dean, Law-making and society in late-Elizabethan England: the parliament of England 1584-1601
  5. Allen D. Boyer, Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age. Stanford University Press, 2003

V: THE EARLY REFORMATION

  Q. 'How popular was the early Reformation'?

Introductory

  1. C Haigh, 'The recent historiography of the English Reformation' Historical Journal 25 (1982) (superb summary of the whole field)
  2. AG Dickens, The English Reformation (strongly pushing the 'from below' interpretation)
  3.  JJ Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English people (strongly opposes Dickens' interpretation)
  4. E Duffy, The stripping of the altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1580 (important, full scale attempt to vindicate the Catholic view)
  5. Claire Cross, Church and people
  6. C Haigh (ed.) The English Reformation revised
  7. Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland. Oxford History of the Christian Church. OUP 2003
  8. Norman Jones, The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002

Anticlericalism and the clergy

  1. Simon Fish, A supplication for the beggars, ed FJ Furnivall & JW Cowper (Early English Text Society), 1871
  2. A H Thompson, The English parish clergy and their organisation in the later middle ages
  3. P Heath, The English parish clergy on the eve of the Reformation
  4. M Bowker, The secular clergy in the diocese of Lincoln
  5.  A Ogle, The tragedy of Lollards' tower

Religion and politics

  1. JJ Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (especially for the role of Wolsey)
  2. Rory McEntegart, Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 2002
  3. Clare Kellar, Scotland, England, and the Reformation, 1534-1561, OUP 2003.
  4. Diarmaid MacCulloch. The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. New York, 1999.

Heresy and politics

  1. JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  2. M Bowker 'The commons' supplication against the ordinaries in the light of some archidiaconal acta' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 21 (1971)

Evangelism

  1. JF Davis, 'The trials of Thomas Bilney and the English Reformation' Historical Journal, 24 (1981) (defines Evangelism)
  2. Maria Dowling & Joy Shakespeare, 'Religion and politics in mid-Tudor England through the eyes of an English protestant woman: the recollections of Rose Hickman' Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 1981 (connects Evangelism with Anne Boleyn)
  3. Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2002
  4. Susan Wabuda, Preaching during the English Reformation. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. CUP 2002.

  Religion and faction

  1. EW Ives, 'Faction at the court of Henry VIII: the fall of Anne Boleyn' History 57 (1972)
  2. EW Ives, Anne Boleyn
  3. RM Warnicke 'Sexual heresy at the court of Henry VIII', Historical Journal 30 (1987)
  4. P Clark, English provincial society chapter 2
  5. Susan Brigden 'Popular disturbance and the fall of Thomas Cromwell and the reformers, 1539-40' Historical Journal, 24 (1981)
  6. Muriel St Clare Byrne, ed., The Lisle papers, vols V & VI (chapters 12-4)
  7. Greg Walker, Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII Scolar Press 1996
  8. Greg Walker, 'Rethinking the fall of Anne Boleyn' The Historical Journal 45 (2002)

The Reformation and the localities

  1. GR Elton, Policy and police (on the enforcement of the reformation)
  2.  P Clark, English provincial society
  3. M Bowker The Henrician Reformation: the diocese of Lincoln under John Longland, 1521-1547
  4. C Haigh, Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire
  5. D MacCulloch 'Catholic and puritan in Elizabethan Suffolk' Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, 72 (1981)
  6. R Whiting, The blind devotion of the people: popular religion and the English Reformation (this is one of the fullest  local studies)
  7. Ethan H. Shagan,. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. Cambridge: CUP 2003

The Dissolution

  1. D Knowles, The Religious orders in England: III The Tudor age
  2. Joyce Youings, The dissolution of the monasteries

Iconoclasm

  1. J Phillips, The reformation of images: the destruction of art in England, 1535-1660
  2. M. Aston, England's iconoclasts : I. Laws against images
  3. Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England. Textuality and the Visual Image. Oxford: OUP 2002
    [See also 4 above]

Catholicism

  1. Christopher Haigh 'The continuity of Catholicism in the English Reformation' Past and Present, 93, 1981
  2. Lucy E. C. Wooding, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000
  3. Thomas F Mayer, Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Also:

  1. ME Aston, 'Lollardy and the Reformation: survival or revival?', History 49 (1964)
  2. JAF Thomson, The later Lollards 1414-1520 (revised ed.)
  3. DM Loades, Revolution in religion: the English Reformation 1530-70
  4. C Haigh, The English Reformations
  5. R Warnicke, Anne Boleyn (see also Ives' review, in Historical Journal)
  6. P Gwyn, The king's cardinal: the rise and fall of Thomas Wolsey
  7.  SJ Gunn and PG Lindley, Cardinal Wolsey (essays)
  8. D MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer (massive biography)
  9. Kenneth Carleton. Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559. Studies in Modern British Religious History,  2001
  10. Gerald Bray. Tudor Church Reform: The Henrician Canons of 1535 and the "Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum". Church of England Record Society, 2000
  11. Thomas Betteridge. Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-83. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, 1999
  12.  Christopher Haigh, 'Success and Failure in the English Reformation' Past and Present 2001 173
  13. Alec Ryrie, 'The Strange death of Lutheran England' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2002 (53)
  14. Wright, J. (1999). ‘Surviving the English Reformation: Commonsense, conscience, and circumstance’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29

VI: 1500-1600 REBELLION

Q: Why did Tudor people rebel against their rulers?

Useful introduction

  1. A Fletcher, Tudor rebellions (5th edition, 2004)
  2. David Starkey 'The string untuned: a riot at Hoddesdon, 1534' History Today 29 (1979), and cf Fortescue (counters 1.)
  3. Alison Wall, Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640. Reconstructions in Early Modern History. London, 2000
  4. Tim Harris, ed. The Politics of the Excluded, 1500-1850. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001

Rebellions and interpretations:

  1. GW Bernard, War, Taxation, and Rebellion in Early Tudor England. Henry VIII, Wolsey and the Amicable Grant of 1525. [On 1525]
  2. ML Bush, The Pilgrimage of Grace
  3.  ME James 'Obedience and dissent in Henrician England' Past and Present 48 (1970)
  4. RB Smith, Land and politics in the England of Henry VIII
  5. GR Elton 'Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace' in B Malament, ed, After the Reformation (also in his Studies vol 3)
  6. D MacCulloch 'Kett's rebellion in context' Past and Present 84 (1979)
  7. J Cornwall, 1549: the revolt of the peasantry
  8. D Loades, Two Tudor conspiracies
  9. P Clark, English provincial society, chapter 3, [offers a more 'religious' interpretation]
  10. ME James, 'The concept of order and the Northern Rising of 1569' Past and Present, 60 (1973)
  11. WT MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime

VII: 1547-1558 THE MID-TUDOR YEARS

Q: '"Continuity" is scarcely more helpful than "crisis" in characterising the years 1547-58'. Discuss.

Approaches

Continuity

  1. Jennifer Loach & Robert Tittler, The Mid-Tudor polity
  2. David Starkey Review of 1. in History 66 (1981)
  3. Jennifer Loach, Edward VI. Yale English Monarchs. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999

Crisis

  1. WRD Jones, The mid-Tudor crisis, 1539-1563
  2. GR Elton, Reform and Reformation
  3. Conrad Russell, Crisis of parliaments pp. 123-44

Narrative

  1. ML Bush, The government policy of protector Somerset
  2. D Hoak, The king's council in the reign of Edward VI
  3. D Loades, The reign of Mary Tudor
  4. Robert Tittler, The Reign of Mary I (2nd Edition) Longman 1991
  5. Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI, CUP 2002

Special areas:

A. The economy

  1. WG Hoskins, The age of plunder
  2.  FJ Fisher 'Commercial trends and policies in sixteenth-century England' Economic History Review 10 (1940)
  3. JD Gould, The great debasement

B. Rebellion

see  list VI.

C. Administration and finance

  1. GR Elton, The Tudor revolution in government, pp 223-258
  2. J Alsop, 'The revenue commission of 1552' Historical Journal 22 (1979)
  3. D.M.Loades, John Dudley: Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553 OUP 1996

and see Hoak (no.8 above)

D. Succession

  1. N Levine, Tudor dynastic problems, 1460-1571

E. Religion

  1. D Loades, The Oxford martyrs
  2. F Heal, Of prelates and princes
  3.  R Podgson, 'Reginald Pole and the priorities of government in Mary Tudor's church' Historical Journal, 18(1975)
  4. David Loades, The reign of Mary Tudor: politics, government and religion in England 1553-58

VIII: 1558-1603 ELIZABETHAN GOVERNMENT

Q: What were the strengths and weaknesses of Elizabethan government?

The Queen

  1. JE Neale, Queen Elizabeth I
  2. C Haigh, Elizabeth I (2nd edition, 2000),
  3. Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603 Princeton UP, 1981

Court and Government

  1. S Adams, 'Politics, faction and clientage in late Tudor England' History Today 32 (1982)
  2. AGR Smith, The government of Elizabethan England
  3. W T MacCaffrey 'Place and patronage in Elizabethan politics' in  S.T.Bindoff ed., Elizabethan government and society
  4. JE Neale, 'The Elizabethan age' and 'The Elizabethan political scene' in Essays in Elizabethan history
  5. P Williams, The Tudor regime
  6. L Stone, The crisis of the aristocracy (chapter on Office and the Court)
  7. J Hurstfield, The court of wards
  8. Michael A.R. Graves, Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Profiles in Power. London and New York: Longman, 1998
  9. Paul E. J. Hammer,. The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  10. John Guy ed., The Reign of Elizabeth I : Court and Culture in the Last DecadeCUP 1995

Local government

  1. J Hurstfield 'County government, c.1530-c.1660' in Victoria History of the counties of England: Wiltshire, vol. V
  2. A Hassell Smith, County and court: Norfolk 1558-1603
  3.  P Clark, English provincial society: Kent
  4. D MacCulloch 'Catholic and puritan in Elizabethan Suffolk' Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 72 (1981)

Puritanism
see reading list X

The problem of government

  1. W T MacCaffrey, 'The crown and the new aristocracy' Past and Present 30 (1965)
  2. W T MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime 1558-72
  3. W T MacCaffrey, Queen Elizabeth and the making of policy, 1572-88
  4. W T MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I: War and politics 1588-1603

Various topics

  1. C Haigh, The reign of Elizabeth I
  2. S Adams 'Favourites and Factions at the Elizabethan Court' in RG Asch and AM Burke ed., Princes, patronage and the nobility
  3.  NL Jones, Reformation by statute
  4. W MacCaffrey, Queen Elizabeth I
  5. John Bossy, Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story YUP 2001
  6. John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy affair, YUP 2002
  7. Patrick Collinson ed., The Sixteenth Century: 1485-1603 OUP 2002

IX: 1500-1650 HUMANISM, EDUCATION AND LITERACY

Q: What if anything was the educational revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

  Introduction

  1. K Charlton, Education in Renaissance England
  2. R. Weiss, Humanism in England During the Fifteenth Century (2nd edition, Oxford, 1957)
  3. HE Mason, Humanism and poetry in the early Tudor period
  4.  R.O'Day Education and society 1500-1800
  5. Jonathan Woolfson, ed. Reassessing Tudor Humanism.  Macmillan, 2002
  6. Charles G. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, 1995)
  7. J. H. Hexter, 'The Education of the Aristocracy in the Renaissance', in Reappraisals in History (1961; an earlier version of the essay to be found in the Journal of Modern History (March 1950)).

The theory of civic humanism

  1. Aristotle, The Politics, [book I chapter 2]
  2. R Ascham, The schoolmaster
  3. B Castiglione, The Courtier
  4. T Elyot, The book named the governour
  5. Sir Thomas More, Utopia
  6. T Starkey, A dialogue between Lupset and Pole

  Some discussions of Utopia and More

  1. J.H. Hexter, Introduction to the Yale edition of Utopia
  2. D Baker-Smith, Thomas More and Plato's voyage
  3. B Bradshaw 'More on Utopia' Historical Journal, 24 (1981)
  4. John C Olin ed., Interpreting More's Utopia, Fordham University Press 1990
  5. Frederic Seebohm, The Oxford Reformers. John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More (3rd edition, 1911; various reprints

  The instruments of education

-Schools and universities-

  1. L Stone, 'The educational revolution in England' Past and Present 28 (1964)
  2. D Cressy, 'Educational opportunity in Tudor and Stuart England' History of Education Quarterly 1(1976)
  3. MH Curtis, 'The alienated intellectuals of early Stuart England' Past and Present 23 (1962)
  4. MH Curtis, Oxford and Cambridge in transition
  5. Hugh Kearney, Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and society in pre-industrial Britain 1500-1700  Cornell University Press 1970

-Literacy-

  1. David Cressy, 'Levels of illiteracy in England, 1530-1730' Historical Journal 20 (1977)
  2. David Cressy,  Literacy and the social order
  3. R Schofield 'The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England' in J Goody, ed., Literacy in traditional societies
  4. Jonathan Barry. 'Literacy and literature in popular culture' inTim Harris ed., Popular culture in England, c.1500-1800, pp.69-94
     

  -Printing-

  1. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, eds. The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. The New Cambridge History of English Literature Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
  2. Lotte Hellinga, J. B. Trapp eds, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 3, 1400–1557, CUP 1999
  3. John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie, eds., with Maureen Bell. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 4, 1557-1695. Cambridge University Press, 2002
  4. Adam Fox. Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 Oxford University Press, 2000.

The impact of educational change

  1. David Starkey 'The age of the household' in S Medcalf, ed, The later middle ages 
  2. JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  3. M Dewar, Sir Thomas Smith: a Tudor intellectual in office
  4. C Read, Mr Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth, [chapters 1-4]
  5. JE Neale, The Elizabethan house of commons, [chapter 15]
  6. JK McConica, English humanists and Reformation politics
  7. David Starkey 'The court: Castiglione's ideal and Tudor reality' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 45 (1982)
  8. Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, eds. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  9. B Worden 'Classical republicanism and the puritan revolution' in H Lloyd Jones, etc. ed., History and Imagination [for some long-term echoes]

Social mobility

  1. L Stone and A Everitt, 'Social mobility in England' Past and Present 33 (1966)

X: 1558-1603 ELIZABETHAN PURITANISM

Q: What were the aims and achievements of the Elizabethan puritans?

Generally and definition

  1. B Hall 'Puritanism: the definitional problem' Studies in Church History, 2 (1966)
  2. R O'Day and Felicity Heal, Church and society in England: Henry VIII to James I
  3. R O'Day and Felicity Heal, Continuity and change
  4. W Haller, The rise of puritanism
  5. C Hill, Society and puritanism in pre-revolutionary England
  6. C Durston and J Eales eds, The culture of early modern puritanism, 1560-1700

Puritanism, politics and parliament

  1. P Collinson 'Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Elizabethan "via media"' Historical Journal 23 (1980) [Raises fundamental questions about the theological knowledge of Elizabeth's most important ministers]
  2. C Cross, The royal supremacy in the Elizabethan church
  3. WT MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime
  4. JE Neale, Elizabeth I and her parliaments [But see the critiques on the parliamentary reading list]
  5. P Collinson, 'John Field and Elizabethan puritanism, in ST Bindoff, etc, eds, Elizabethan government and society
  6. P Collinson, The Elizabethan puritan movement
  7. H Porter, Reformation and reaction in Tudor Cambridge
  8. C Cross, The puritan earl
  9. WT MacCaffrey, 'The crown and the new aristocracy' Past and Present, 30 (1965)

Puritanism and episcopacy

  1. P Collinson, 'Episcopacy and reform in England in the later sixteenth century' Studies in Church History, 3 (1967)
  2. P Collinson, Archbishop Grindal
  3. F Heal, Of prelates and princes
  4. P Lake, 'Matthew Hutton: a puritan bishop' History, 64, (1979)
  5. P Lake, Moderate puritans and the Elizabethan Church
  6. E.H.Shagan, 'The English Inquisition: Constitutional conflict and ecclesiastical law in the 1590s' The Historical Journal 47 (2004)

Puritanism and the localities

  1. P Clark, English provincial society
  2. C Haigh, Reformation and reaction in Tudor Lancashire
  3. RC Richardson, Puritanism in north-west England
  4. WJ Shields, Puritans in the diocese of Peterborough, 1558-1620
  5. Laquita M. Higgs, Godliness and Governance in Tudor Colchester Michigan University Press
  6. Christopher Marsh, 'Common Prayer in England 1560-1640: The view from the pew' Past and Present 2001 171: 66-94
  7. P McGrath, Papists and puritans
  8. P Collinson, 'Cranbrook and the Fletchers: popular and unpopular religion in the Kentish weald' in PN Brooks, ed, Reformation in principle and practice: essays in honour of AG Dickens

Also:

  1. P. Collinson, Godly people: essays on English protestantism and puritanism
  2. P. Collinson, The birthpangs of protestant England
  3. John Bossy, The English Catholic community
  4. D MacCulloch, The later Reformation in England 1547-1603
  5. Peter Iver Kaufman, 'Prophesying again', Church History 68 (1999), pp.337-58
  6. Kristen Poole, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
  7. Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger, ed. Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson from his Students St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History 1998

The early-Stuart aftermath

  1. David Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004
  2. P. Lake & M.Questier, The Antichrist's lewd hat, YUP 2002
  3. Kenneth Fincham, The Early Stuart Church, 1603-1642 Stanford University Press, 1993
  4. Michael C. Questier, ed., Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625 CUP 1996

XI: ECONOMIC HISTORY: AGRICULTURE AND POPULATION

Q: 'How revolutionary were the agricultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?'

Introductions

  1. DC Coleman, The economy of England 1450-1700
  2. JD Chambers, Population, economy, and society in pre-industrial England
  3. Christopher Dyer, An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages OUP 2005
  4. MJ Daunton, Progress and Poverty. An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850

Agriculture

  1. J Thirsk, The Agrarian history of England and Wales, vol.4
  2. E Kerridge, Agrarian problems in the sixteenth century
  3. RH Tawney, The Agrarian problem in the sixteenth century
  4. RC Allen, Enclosure and the Yeoman: the Agricultural Development of the South Midlands 1450-1850.
  5. EM Leonard, The inclosure of common fields in the seventeenth century
  6. I Blanchard, 'Population Change, Enclosure and the Early Tudor Economy,’ Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 23 (1970), 427-45.
  7. J Thirsk, English peasant farming
  8. WG Hoskins, The midland peasant
  9. WE Minchinton, ed., Essays in agrarian history
  10. EL Jones 'Agricultural origins of industry', Past & Present 19

Population and prices

  1. AB Appleby, 'Disease or famine? Mortality in Cumberland and Westmorland, 1580-1640', Economic History Review 1973
  2. AB Appleby, Famine in Tudor and Stuart England
  3. WH Beveridge et al., Prices and wages in England from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, vol.1, 1939
  4. CJ Harrison 'Grain price analysis and harvest qualities, 1465-1634' Agricultural History Review 1971
  5. WG Hoskins 'Harvest fluctuations and English economic history', Agricultural History Review 1964 and 1968
  6. EH Phelps-Brown and SV Hopkins, 'Seven centuries of the prices of consumables compared with builders' wage-rates', Economica 1955 (standard tables of prices and wages; reprinted in EM Carus-Wilson, ed., Essays in Economic History
  7. WE Minchinton, ed., Wage regulation in pre-industrial England
  8. Boulton, Jeremy, 'Food prices and the standard of living in London in the 'century of revolution', 1580-1700 The Economic History Review 53 (2000)
  9. Hinde, Andrew, England's Population.
  10. Wrigley, EA, and Schofield, RS, The Population History of England 1541-1871, 1981.

XII: SOCIAL CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Q: How severe were the strains placed upon English society by the economic and demographic changes of the early modern period, and how did society cope with those strains?


[NB many of the items in the lists on XI Agriculture and Population, on XIII Family, Sex and Marriage and on IX Education and Literacy are also relevant,]

 

Introductions

  1. K Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680
  2. Barry Coward, Social Change and Continuity in Early Modern England 1550-1750
  3. J.A.Sharpe, Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760 (2nd edition, 1997)
  4. P Laslett, The world we have lost
  5. P Laslett, The world we have lost further explored

Poverty and vagrancy

  1. JF Pound, Poverty and vagrancy in Tudor and Stuart England
  2. AL Beier, The problem of the poor in Tudor and Stuart England
  3. EM Leonard, The early history of English poor relief
  4. Paul Sla
    5. ck, The English Poor Law, 1531-1782. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge University Press, 1995
  5. Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner, ed. Londinopolis Essays on the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
  6. Steve Hindle, 'Dearth, fasting and alms:  The campaign for general hospitality in late Elizabethan England' Past and Present 2001 172: 44-86

 Local life

  1. K Wrightson and D Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village: Terling 1525-1700
  2. M Spufford, Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Crime

  1. JA Sharpe, Crime in early modern England
  2. C Herrup, The common peace
  3. D Hay, 'Property, authority, and the criminal law', in D Hay et al., ed., Albion's fatal tree: crime and society in eighteenth century England
  4. Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge University Press, 2000

Order and disorder

  1. A Fletcher and J Stevenson, eds., Order and disorder in early modern England (an important collection)
  2. J Brewer and J Styles, eds., An ungovernable people: the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  3. B Sharp, In contempt of all authority: rural artisans and riot in the West of England, 1586-1660
  4. P Clark 'Popular protest and disturbance in Kent, 1558-1640', Economic History Review 1976
  5. CSL Davies 'Peasant revolts in France and England: a comparison', Agricultural History Review 1973
  6. Ronald G. Asch, Nobilities in Transition, 1550-1700: Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe . Reconstructions in Early Modern History Series. London 2003.
  7. Paul Thomas, et al ed., Authority and Disorder in Tudor Times: 1461-1603 CUP 1999
  8. R.W.Hoyle, 'Agrarian agitation in mid sixteenth-century Norfolk:  A petition of 1553' The Historical Journal 44 (2001)
  9. L Shaw-Taylor, 'Parliamentary enclosure and the emergence of an English agricultural proletariat' Journal of Economic History 61 (2001)

Other important studies

  1. P Clark, The English ale-house: a social history 1200-1830
  2. A Macfarlane, The origins of English individualism

Also:

  1. David Levine and Keith Wrightson, The making of an industrial society: Whickham 1560-1765
  2. JS Cockburn, ed, Crime in England 1550-1800
  3. P Griffiths, A Fox, and S Hindle, The experience of authority in early modern England
  4. A.L.Beier, 'Poverty and progress in early modern England', pp.201-39, in Beier, Cannadine & Rosenheim (ed.s) The first modern society
  5. Steven Hindle, 'Exclusion crises: Poverty, migration and parochial responsibility in English rural communities, c.1560-1660', Rural History 7,  (1996) 125-49
  6. Marjorie K. McIntosh, (1998). 'Local responses to the poor in late medieval and Tudor England', Continuity and Change 13, 209-45
  7. J. Barry & C. Brooks eds., The Middling sort of people
  8. K. J. Kesselring,. Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. Cambridge University Press, 2003
  9. Peter Clark, ed. The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 2, 1540-1840 . Cambridge University Press, 2000
  10. Paul Slack, 'Government and Information in Seventeenth-Century England ' Past and Present 2004

XIII: THE FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Q: What were the main changes which took place in family structure and in attitudes towards the family in early modern England?

[NB many of the items in lists XI. Agriculture and XII. Social Change are also relevant]

The family: general

  1. R Houlbrooke, English family life
  2. L Pollock, A lasting relationship: parents and children over three centuries
  3. L Stone, The family, sex and marriage in England 1500-1800
  4. A Macfarlane, Marriage and love in England: modes of reproduction 1300-1840
  5. A Macfarlane, Review of (1) in History and theory 18 (1979)
  6. S Ozment, When fathers ruled: family life in Reformation Europe
  7. C Durston, The Family in the English Revolution

Specific topics

  1. P Laslett, Family life and illicit love in earlier generations
  2. P Laslett and R Wall, Household and family in past time
  3. M Ingram, 'The reform of popular culture? Sex and marriage in early modern England', in B Reay, ed., Popular culture in early modern England
  4. M Ingram, Church courts, sex and marriage in England 1570-1640
  5. GR Quaife, Wanton wenches and wayward wives: peasants and illicit sex in early seventeenth century England
  6. JA Sharpe, Defamation and sexual slander in early modern England: the church courts at York
  7. K Thomas, 'The double standard', Journal of the History of Ideas 20 (1959)
  8. RB Schnucker, 'Elizabethan birth control', Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4(1975)
  9. EA Wrigley, 'Family limitation in pre-industrial England', Economic History Review 19 (1966)
  10. K Wrightson, 'Infanticide in earlier seventeenth century England', Local Population Studies 15 (1975)
  11. R Houlbrooke, 'The making of marriage in mid-Tudor England', Journal of Family History 10 (1985)
  12. P Crawford, '"The sucking child"': Adult attitudes to child care in the first year of life in seventeenth-century England', Continuity and Change 1, (1986) 23-51

Women

  1. MR Sommerville, Sex and subjection: attitudes to women in early modern society
  2. M Prior, ed., Women in English Society 1500-1800
  3. I Maclean, The Renaissance notion of women
  4. A L Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England
  5. K Thomas, 'Women and the Civil War sects', Past and Present 13 (1958)
  6. P Hogrefe, Tudor women: commoners and queens
  7. P Rushton, 'Women, witchcraft and slander', Northern History 18 (1982)
  8. J Nadelhaft, 'The Englishwoman's sexual civil war', Journal of the History of Ideas 1982
  9. P Mack, 'Women as prophets during the English Civil War', Feminist Studies 8 (1982)
  10. JK Kinnaird, 'Mary Astell and the conservative contribution to English feminism', Journal of British Studies 19 (1979)
  11. V Fildes ed., Women as mothers in pre-industrial England
  12. Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 . Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998
  13. Barbara J. Harris. English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
  14. Anne Laurence, Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
  15. Jennifer Kermode and Garthine Walker, eds. Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994
  16. Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before her 1995
  17. Eales, Jacqueline,  Women in Early Modern England 1500-1700 London: UCL Press 1998
  18. David M. Turner, Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740  Cambridge University Press, 2002
  19. J Daybell ed., Early Modern Women's Letter Writing , 1450-1700 Laura Gowing Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England Yale University Press, 2003

Some of the best known writings by women

  1. M Fell, Women's speaking justified 1666 (defence of women's speaking at Quaker meetings; also other works in defence of Quakers and religious tolerance)
  2. M Astell, Reflections upon marriage 1700 (also works in defense of conservative Anglicanism and religious intolerance)
  3. D Osborne, Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (on love, marriage and other topics)

Other women's writing

  1. B Harley, Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley , Camden Society 1854 (on politics, religion, family life etc)
  2. A Goreau, ed.,The whole duty of a woman: female writers in seventeenth-century England (anthology)

XIV: 1603-1629 PARLIAMENT AND REVISIONISM

Q: 'A battleground for court factions':  Is this an adequate description of Parliament 1603-29?

Parliament:

  1. JP Kenyon, The Stuart constitution (documents and commentary)
    [Many key documents are also available online in the Liberty Library]
  2. W Notestein 'The winning of the initiative by the house of commons' Proceedings of the British Academy 11 (1924)
    [The classic sttement of the "Whig" interpretation]

'Revisionism'

  1. K Sharp ed., Faction and parliament
  2. CSR Russell, 'Parliamentary history in perspective, 1604-1629' History 61 (1976)
  3. CSR Russell, Parliaments and English politics

Critiques

  1. JH Hexter. 'Power struggle, parliament and liberty in early Stuart England' Journal of Modern History 50 (1978)
  2. C Hill 'Parliament and people in seventeenth-century England' Past and Present 92 (1981)
  3. TK Rabb & D Hirst, 'Revisionism revised' Past and Present 92 (1981)
  4. R Cust and A Hughes eds., Conflict in early Stuart England (a good collection of essays)
  5. Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, and Peter Lake, eds. Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell Cambridge University Press, 2002

Ideas

  1. JP Sommerville, Politics and ideology in England 1603-1640; new ed.: Royalists and Patriots
  2. G Burgess, The politics of the ancient constitution
  3. G Burgess, Absolute monarchy and the Stuart constitution
  4. JP Sommerville "English and European political ideas in the early seventeenth century: revisionism and the case of absolutism", Journal of British Studies 35 (1996), 168-94

The constituencies and localities

  1. P Zagorin, The court and the country
  2. D Hirst, Representative of the people?
  3. P Clark 'Thomas Scott and the growth of urban opposition to the early Stuart regime' Historical Journal 21 (1978)
  4. R Munden, 'The defeat of Sir John Fortescue: court v. country at the hustings' English Historical Review, 93 (1978)
  5. M Kishlansky, Parliamentary selection

The king

  1. Jenny Wormald, 'James VI & I: two kings or one?' History 68 (1978)
  2. Pauline Croft, King James New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
  3. C. V. Wedgwood, A Coffin for King Charles (1964)
  4. L. J. Reeve, Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule (1989)

The court, court faction and parliament

  1. GV Akrigg,  Jacobean pageant or the court of James I
  2. R Lockyer, Buckingham
  3. GE Aylmer, The king's servants
  4. LL Peck, 'The earl of Northampton, merchant grievances and the Addled Parliament of 1614' Historical Journal 24 (1981)
  5.  K Sharpe 'Faction at the early Stuart court' History Today 33 (1983)
  6. Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, eds., Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England 2002
  7. John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown Finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series. 2002
  8. Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660 Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  9. R Malcolm Smuts, Culture and Power in England, 1585-1685. Social History in Perspective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999
  10. BP Pursell, 'The end of the Spanish match' Historical Journal 45 (2002)

Two major incidents

  1. JA Guy 'The origins of the Petition of Right reconsidered' Historical Journal, 25 (1982); [but also see Kishlansky's demolition in Historical Journal]
  2. R Cust, The forced loan and English politics 1626-28 [excellent study with implications far wider than the title suggests]

XV: 1629-42 FROM 'THOROUGH' TO THE LONG PARLIAMENT 

Q: Why did civil war break out in England in 1642?

[NB many of the items on list XIV are also relevant]

Introductory

  1. R Ashton, The English civil war
  2. AJ Fletcher, The outbreak of the English civil war
  3. B Manning, Politics, religion and the English civil war
  4. L Stone, The causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642
  5. C Russell, The causes of the English Civil War [revisionist; contrast with Stone]
  6. R Zaller 'What does the English Revolution mean?', Albion 18(1986), 617-35
  7. Peter Gaunt ed., The English Civil War: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000
  8. D. E. Kennedy, The English Revolution, 1642-1649. British History in Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

The centre and the localities

  1. GE Aylmer, The king's servants
  2. CV Wedgwood, The king's peace
  3. John Harris, S Orgel & R Strong, The king's arcadia: Inigo Jones and the Stuart court
  4. CV Wedgwood, Strafford: a reevaluation
  5. C Hill, The economic problems of the church
    [for Laudianism, see also Tyacke in Russell, Origins of the English civil war]
  6. TG Barnes, Somerset 1625-40
  7. JS Morrill, The revolt of the provinces
  8. A Fletcher, A county community at peace and war: Sussex 1600-60
  9. P Zagorin, Court and Country
  10. AM Everitt, The community of Kent and the Great Rebellion
  11. C Holmes 'The county community in Stuart historiography', in Journal of British Studies 19 (1980)

Parliamentary politics

  1.  JH Hexter, The reign of King Pym
  2. B Wormald, Clarendon

London

  1. V Pearl, London and the outbreak of the puritan revolution
  2. R Ashton, The city and the court, 1603-43

Scotland and Ireland

  1. D Stevenson, The Scottish revolution
  2. T Ranger 'Strafford in Ireland: a revaluation' Past and Present 19 (1961); reprinted in T Aston, ed, Crisis in Europe
  3. David Scott, Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-1649. British History in Perspective Series Macmillan, 2004.

Religion
[See also the works cited in The Stuart aftermath section of list X).

  1. N Tyacke 'Puritanism, Arminianism and counter-revolution' in C Russell, ed., The origins of the English Civil War
  2. P White, 'The rise of Arminianism reconsidered', in Past & Present 101(1983)
  3. J Morrill 'The religious context of the English Civil War', in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1984
  4. C Hill, Economic problems of the church
  5. Bryan D. Spinks. Sacraments, Ceremonies, and the Stuart Divines: Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland, 1603-1662. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002
  6. R Strier & D.B.Hamilton, eds, Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 CUP 1996
  7. DR Como, 'Predestination and political conflict in Laud's London' The Historical Journal 46  (2003)
  8. K. Fincham, 'The Restoration of altars in 1630', Historical Journal 44 (2001)
  9. John Walter, ‘Abolishing Superstition with Sedition’? The Politics of Popular Iconoclasm in England 1640–1642 Past and Present 2004 183: 79-123

The judiciary

  1. WJ Jones, Politics and the bench

Collections of essays

  1. C Russell, ed., The origins of the English Civil War
  2. H Tomlinson, ed., Before the English Civil War
  3. P Taylor, ed., The origins of the English civil war: conspiracy, crusade or class conflict
  4. B Bradshaw and J Morrill, eds, The British problem c1534-1707: state formation in the Atlantic archipelago
    [For more on the "British problem" approach see list XXIII]

A recent socio-economic approach

  1. D Underdown. Revel, riot and rebellion: popular politics and culture in England 1603-1660

Also:

  1. Conrad Russell, The causes of the English Civil War
  2. N Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists: the rise of English Arminianism
  3. A Hughes, The causes of the English Civil War [good brief guide]
  4. K Sharpe, The personal rule of Charles I [large]
  5. M Kishlansky, Parliamentary selection
  6. D Underdown, Fire from heaven [detailed local study]
  7. D Underdown, A Freeborn People. Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth Century England.
  8. Austin Woolrych. Britain in Revolution, 1625-1660. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002

XVI: 1642-49 THE ARMY AND RADICALISM

Q: 'The rise of the New Model Army was a consequence and not a cause of the radicalisation of politics'. Discuss.

[Many items on list XVII 'The Interregnum' are also relevant]

Introduction

  1.  R Ashton, The English Civil War
  2. GE Aylmer, Rebellion or revolution? England 1640-60
  3. JP Kenyon The Stuart constitution, Section 8 'The army and reform'

The traditional view

  1.  CH Firth, Cromwell's army

The 'revisionist' view

  1. M Kishlansky, The rise of the New Model Army
  2. M Kishlansky, The case of the army truly stated: the creation of the New Model Army' Past and Present 81 (1978)

A still more recent view

  1. I Gentles, The New Model Army

Radicalism

  1. FD Dow, Radicalism in the English revolution
  2. B Reay and JF McGregor (eds), Radical religion and the English revolution
  3. Julie Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War. Studies in Modern British Religious History Series. 2003
  4. Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. CUP 2003
  5. Ann Hughes, Gangraena and the struggle for the English Revolution OUP 2004
  6. Janelle Greenberg, The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution, CUP 2001

The Independents

  1. JH Hexter, 'The problem of the presbyterian independents' American Historical Review, 44 (1938)
  2. G Yule, The independents in the English civil war

The Levellers

  1. ASP Woodhouse ed., Puritanism and liberty
  2. GE Aylmer ed., The Levellers in the English Revolution
  3. Andrew Sharp ed., The English Levellers
  4. David Wootton, 'Leveller democracy,' in J. H. Burns, ed., The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700
  5. DM Wolfe ed., Leveller manifestoes
  6. B Manning, The English people and the English Revolution 1640-49
  7. Rachel Foxley, 'John Lilburne and the citizenship of "Free-born Englishment"' The Historical Journal 47 (2004)

Politics, parliament and the army

  1. M Kishlansky 'The army and the Levellers: the roads to Putney' Historical Journal, 22 (1979)
  2. I Gentles 'Arrears of pay and ideology in the army revolt of 1647' War and Society, 1 (1975)
  3. D Underdown, Pride's purge
  4. A Woolrych, Soldiers and statesmen

High politics (and internecine strife amongst the revisionists)

  1. M Kishlansky 'Saye what?', Historical Journal 33 (1990)
  2. JSA Adamson 'Politics and the nobility in Civil-War England', Historical Journal 34 (1991)
  3. M Kishlansky 'Saye no more', Journal of British Studies 1991

Essays

  1. J Morrill ed., Reactions to the English Civil War 1642-1649
  2. C Jones, M Newitt, S Roberts (eds), Politics and people in revolutionary England

XVII: 1649-1660 THE INTERREGNUM

Q: Why was no lasting constitutional or religious settlement introduced in England in the years 1649-60?

[Many items on the list 'The Army and radicalism' are also relevant]

Introduction

  1. B Coward, The Stuart age
  2. I Roots, The Great Rebellion 1642-60
  3. R Parry ed., The English civil war and after
  4. A Woolrych, England without a King
  5. T Barnard, The English republic
  6. David L. Smith ed., Cromwell and the Interregnum. Blackwell Essential Readings in History Series. Oxford 2003

Government: introductory

  1. JP Kenyon, The Stuart constitution, chapter 9 'The Interregnum'

The Protector

  1. C Hill, God's Englishman
  2. C Hill, Oliver Cromwell (Historical Association pamphlet)
  3. CH Firth, Oliver Cromwell and the rule of the puritans in England
  4. WC Abbott, The writings and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 4 vols
    [fundamental primary source]

Politics, representative assemblies, legislation and finance

  1. HR Trevor-Roper, 'Oliver Cromwell and his parliaments' in his Religion, the Reformation and Social Change
  2. I Roots, 'Cromwell's Ordinances: the early legislation of the Protectorate' in GE Aylmer, ed, The Interregnum
  3. M Ashley, Financial and commercial policy under the Cromwellian protectorate
  4. RJ Habbakuk, 'Public finance during the Interregnum' Economic History Review, 15 (1962)
  5. JT Rutt, ed., The diary of Thomas Burton, 4 vols
    [outstanding primary source]
  6. B Worden, The Rump parliament
  7. A Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate

Bureaucracy and 'court'

  1. GE Aylmer, The state's servants
  2. R Sherwood, The court of Oliver Cromwell
  3. David Farr, John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684 2003

Foreign policy

  1. C Wilson, Profit and power
  2. M Roberts, 'Cromwell and the Baltic' in his Essays in Swedish History

Local government and the "county community" school

  1. A Everitt. The local community and the Great Rebellion (Historical Association pamphlet)
  2. A Fletcher, A county community at peace and war: 1600-60
  3. JS Morrill, Cheshire, 1630-60

- opposed by

  1. C Holmes, 'The county community in Stuart historiography' Journal of British Studies 19 (1980)
  2. C Holmes, Seventeenth-century Lincolnshire
    [and see the useful review by A Fletcher in Historical Journal 25 (1982)]
  3. A Hughes, Politics, society and civil war in Warwickshire 1620-1660
    [excellent local study]

Religion [see also items on list XVI 'The Army and radicalism']

  1. C Hill, The world turned upside down
  2. K Thomas, 'The puritans and adultery' in K Thomas, ed, Puritans and revolutionaries
  3. C Williams, 'The anatomy of a radical gentleman: Henry Marten' in Thomas, Puritans and revolutionaries

Political Opposition

  1. D Underdown, Royalist conspiracy in England, 1649-60

Reform in law and science

  1. D Veall, The popular movement for law reform
  2. C Webster, The Great Instauration: science, medicine and reform, 1626-60
    But compare
  3. John Morgan 'Puritanism and science: a reinterpretation' Historical Journal 22 (1979)

Essays

  1. J Morrill, ed., Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
  2. I Roots, ed., Cromwell, a profile
  3. G Aylmer, ed., The Interregnum
  4. C. Davis, Oliver Cromwell 2001

Also:

  1. B Coward, Oliver Cromwell
  2. Barry Coward, The Cromwellian Protectorate. New Frontiers in History Series. Manchester University Press, 2002

XVIII: 1660-88: RESTORATION, EXCLUSION CRISIS, AND GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

Why did Exclusion fail while the Glorious Revolution succeeded?

General

  1. J Miller, The Glorious Revolution (Seminar Studies)
  2.  J Miller, James II: a study in kingship
  3.  John Miller, After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II  2000
  4. J.R.Jones, ed., The Restored monarchy 1660-88 (Problems in Focus)
  5. J.R Jones, Country and Court: England 1658-1714
  6. KHD Haley, Politics in the reign of Charles II (Historical Assoc studies)
  7. D Ogg, England in the reign of Charles II
  8.  D Ogg, England in the reigns of James II and William III
  9. LKJ Glassey. ed., The reigns of Charles II and James VII and II
  10. W. A. Speck, James II. Profiles in Power. Longman, 2002
  11. John Callow, The Making of James II: The Formative Years of a Fallen King 2000
  12. Alan Houston and Steve Pincus, eds. .A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration Cambridge University Press, 2001
  13. John Spurr, England in the1670s: This Masquerading Age. History of Early Modern England. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001

The Restoration

  1. R Hutton, The Restoration
  2.  JP Kenyon, The Stuart Constitution, chapter 10 (chapters 11-13 continue to 1688)
  3. G. E. Aylmer, The Crown's Servants: Government and Civil Service under Charles II, 1660-1685. Oxford University Press, 2002
  4. N. H. Keeble, The Restoration: England in the 1660s. History of Early Modern England Series. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002

The Exclusion Crisis

  1. JP Kenyon, The Popish Plot
  2. Alan Marshall, The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey: Plots and Politics in Restoration London. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999
  3. JR Jones, The first Whigs
  4.  E.S. De Beer, 'The House of Lords in the Parliament of 1680', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 20 (1943-5)
  5. D.Allen, 'Political clubs in Restoration London', Historical Journal 19 (1976)
  6.  KHD Haley, The first Earl of Shaftesbury

The Glorious Revolution

  1. WA Speck, Reluctant revolutionaries
  2.  JR Jones, The Revolution of 1688 in England
  3. JR Western, Monarchy and Revolution
  4. W.L. Sachse, 'The mob and the Revolution of 1688' in Journal of British Studies 4 (1964)
  5. H. Horwitz, 'Parliament and the Glorious Revolution', in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 47 (1974)
  6. Eveline Cruickshanks, The Glorious Revolution. British History in Perspective Series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
  7. Michael Mullet, James II and English Politics, 1678-1688 Routledge 1994

Some major themes

  1. J Miller, Popery and politics in England, 1660-88
  2. C D Chandaman, The English public revenue, 1660-88
  3. J Childs, The army, James II and the Glorious Revolution
  4. John Spurr, The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689 YUP 1991

Also

  1. R Hutton, Charles II
  2. S Prall, The bloodless revolution
  3. JP Kenyon, Revolution principles
  4. R Ashcraft, Revolutionary principles and John Locke's "Two treatises of government"
  5. SS Webb, Lord Churchill's Coup. The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
  6. J Scott, Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis
  7. Julian Hoppit, A Land of Liberty? England, 1689-1727. The New Oxford History of England Series. Oxford University Press, 2000
  8. Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, and D. W. Hayton, eds. The House of Commons, 1690-1715. 5 volumes. The History of Parliament Series Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    [Comprehensive source of biographical material on c. 2,000 MPs]
  9. Melinda S. Zook. Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999
  10. Jonathan Scot, 'What were Commonwealth principles', The Historical Journal
    47 (2004)

XIX: WILLIAM III AND ANNE: 1689-1714

Q: Were politics under William and Anne dominated by principle, party, or personality?

General accounts

  1. D Ogg, England in the reigns of James II and William III [Solid]
  2.  GM Trevelyan, England under Queen Anne [classic old account]
  3. S Baxter, William III and the defence of European liberty
  4. Craig Rose, England in the 1690s: Revolution, Religion and War. History of Early Modern England. Oxford  Blackwell Publishers, 1999
  5. Wilfred Prest, Albion Ascendant: English History 1660-1815 OUP 1998

Analysis of the political system and parties

  1. R Walcott, English politics in the early eighteenth century
    [famous attempt at "Namierization"]
  2. G Holmes, English politics in the age of Anne [standard account]
  3. W Speck, Tory and Whig
  4. JH Plumb, The growth of political stability [famous short book]
  5. BW Hill, The rise of parliamentary parties 1689-1742
  6. H Horwitz, "Parties, connections, and parliamentary politics 1689-1714", Journal of British Studies 6 (1966)
  7. Alan Marshal, The Age of faction: Court politics 1660-1702 Manchester University Press 1999

Discussions of some important figures

  1. HT Dickinson, Bolingbroke
  2. A MacInnes, Robert Harley, Tory politician
  3.  WL Sachse, Lord Somers
  4. H Horwitz, Revolutionary politics (on the Earl of Nottingham)
  5. S Biddle, Bolingbroke and Harley
  6. Edward Gregg, Queen Anne. YUP 2001

Ideas and propaganda

  1.  JP Kenyon, Revolutionary principles
  2. JO Richards, Party propaganda under Queen Anne
  3. JA Downie, Robert Harley and the press
  4. G Straka, 'The final phase of divine right theory in England, 1688-1702', English Historical Review 77 (1962)
  5.  HT Dickinson, Liberty and property

Some important incidents and themes

  1. G Holmes, The trial of Doctor Sacheverell
  2. G Holmes, 'The Sacheverell riots: the crowd and the church in early eighteenth century London', Past and Present 72 (1976)
  3. GV Bennett, 'Robert Harley, the Godolphin ministry, and the bishoprics crisis of 1707', English Historical Review 82 (1967)
  4. E Cruickshanks, 'The Tories and the succession to the throne in the 1714 parliament', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 46 (1973)
  5. G Holmes ed., Britain after the Glorious Revolution 1689-1714 [good collection of essays]
  6. C Jones, ed., Britain in the first age of party 1680-1750 [another good collection of essays]

Jacobitism

  1. PK Monod, Jacobitism and the English people 1688-1788
  2. B Lenman, The Jacobite risings in Britain 1689-1746

A provocative attempt to reinterpret the whole period (and more)

  1. JCD Clark, English society 1688-1832

XX: THE AGE OF WALPOLE

Q: Was England under Walpole an aristocratic one-party state in which ideals, religion, and principles were subordinated to self-interest (or abandoned altogether), and bribery and corruption ruled?

General

  1. P Langford, A polite and commercial people: England 1727-1783
  2.  JB Owen, The eighteenth century, 1714-1815

Walpole

  1. JH Plumb, Walpole: the king's minister, 2 vols
  2. HT Dickinson, Walpole and the Whig supremacy
  3. P Langford, The Excise Crisis: society and politics in the age of Walpole
  4. J Black ed., Britain in the age of Walpole
  5. BW Hill, Walpole

Ideas

  1. HT Dickinson, Liberty and property
  2.  JAW Gunn, Beyond liberty and property
  3. C Robbins, The eighteenth-century commonwealthmen
  4. R Browning, Political and constitutional ideas of the court Whigs
  5. I Kramnick, Bolingbroke and his circle: the politics of nostalgia in the age of Walpole
  6. B Goldgar, Walpole and the wits: the relation of politics and literature 1722-42

Religion and the church

  1. N Sykes, Church and state in England in the eighteenth century
  2. N Sykes, From Sheldon to Secker
  3. N Sykes, Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London
  4. J Redwood, Reason, ridicule and religion: the age of Enlightenment in England 1660-1750
  5. MR Watts, The dissenters, vol. 1: from the Reformation to the French Revolution

Parliament, politics and the constitution

  1. EN Williams ed., The eighteenth century constitution [documents with commentary]
  2. L Colley, In defiance of oligarchy: the Tory party 1714-60
  3. AS Foord, His Majesty's opposition 1714-1832
  4. R Sedgwick, The history of parliament: the House of Commons 1715-54, 2 vols [very detailed]
  5. C Jones, ed., Britain in the first age of party 1680-1750 [collection of essays]
  6. JA Phillips, Electoral behaviour in unreformed England [on elections and corruption]
  7. C Jones and L Jones, eds, Peers, politics, and power: the House of Lords 1603-1911

Finance

  1. PGM Dickson, The financial revolution in England: a study in the development of public credit, 1688-1756

A different and fashionable theme

  1. L Colley, Britons: forging the nation 1707-1837
    [has much on Walpole's period and the rest of the century; about development of a British - as opposed to English, Scottish, Welsh - national identity)]

and for background to this:

  1. B Bradshaw and J Morrill, eds, The British problem c1534-1707: state formation in the Atlantic archipelago

XXI. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WITCH-HUNT

Q. Why did English people begin hunting witches in the sixteenth century, and stop hunting them in the seventeenth?

General

  1. J.A.Sharpe, Instruments of darkness
  2. B.P.Levack, The witch-hunt in early modern Europe
  3. I.Bostridge, Witchcraft and its transformations
  4. J.Barry, M.Hester, & G.Roberts eds, Witchcraft in early modern Europe
  5. S.Clark, Thinking with demons
  6. C.L.Ewen, Witch hunting and witch trials
  7. C.Larner, Enemies of God
  8. W.Notestein, A History of witchcraft in England: From 1588 to 1718
  9. H.R. Trevor-Roper,  The European witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and other essays
  10. K.Thomas, Religion and the decline of magic
  11. Sydney Anglo ed., The Damned Art: Essays in the literature of witchcraft

Witchcraft and women

  1. A.Anderson & R.Gordon, 'Witchcraft and the status of women - the case of England', British Journal of Sociology, 29 (June 1978), pp. 171-84
  2. J.K.Swales & H.V.McLachlan, 'Witchcraft and the status of women: a comment', British Journal of Sociology 30 (September 1979), pp. 349-58
  3. J.A.Sharpe, 'Witchcraft and women in seventeenth-century England: some Northern evidence' Continuity and Change (1991) 6, 179-99
  4. Clive Holmes, 'Women: Witnesses and witches', Past & Present 140 (August 1993), pp. 45-78
  5. A.L.Barstow, Witchcraze
  6. J.R.Brink, A.P.Coudert & M.C.Horowitz eds., The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Volume XII Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)
  7. D.Purkiss, The witch in history

Witchcraft and science

  1. M.McDonald, Mystical Bedlam
  2. D.Harley, 'Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650-1700', In The medical revolution of the seventeenth century, Edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear pp.114-144
  3. D.Harley, 'Historians as demonologists: The Myth of the midwife-witch' Journal for the Social History of Medicine (1990) 3, pp.1-26
  4. Thomas Harmon Jobe, 'The Devil in Restoration Science: The Glanvill-Webster witchcraft debate', Isis, (1981) 72, 343-56
  5. C.Webster, From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the making of modern science (especially Chapter 4)

Witchcraft and society

  1. A.D.J.Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
  2. Adrian Pollock, 'Social and economic characteristics of witchcraft accusations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Kent', Archaeologia Cantiana (1979) XCV, 37-48
  3. Peter Rushton, 'Women, witchcraft, and slander in Early Modern England: Cases from the Church Courts of Durham, 1560-1675', Northern History (1979) XVIII, 116-132
  4. J.T.Swain, 'The Lancashire witch trials of 1612 and 1634 and the economics of witchcraft', Northern History (1994) XXX, 64-85
  5. P.Tyler, 'The Church Courts at York and witchcraft prosecutions 1567-1640', Northern History, (1969) IV, 84-110
  6. C.Holmes, 'Popular Culture? Witches, magistrates and divines in early modern England' In S.Kaplan ed., Understanding Popular Culture

Particular incidents

  1. M.McDonald, Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case
  2. D.P.Walker, Unclean spirits: Possession and exorcism
  3. E.Fairfax, Daemonologia: A discourse on witchcraft
  4. C.L.Ewen, Robert Ratcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex: The witchcraft allegations in his family
  5. G.B.Harrison, The Trial of the Lancaster witches
  6. Annabel Gregor,'Witchcraft, politics and "Good Neighbourhood" in early seventeenth-century Rye', Past and Present (1991) 133, 31-66
  7. R.Deacon, Matthew Hopkins: Witch finder general
  8. J.Westaway & R.D.Harrison, ''The Surey Demoniack': Defining Protestantism in 1690s Lancashire', In Studies in Church History (1996) 32, pp.263-82
  9. P.J.Guskin, 'The context of English witchcraft' In Eighteenth Century Studies (1981-2) 15, 48-71

XXII: POPULAR CULTURE

Q. Should early-modern English culture be characterised as deeply fractured along the lines of power and wealth?

General

  1. P.Burke, Popular culture in early modern Europe
  2. T.Harris, Popular culture in England c. 1500-1800
  3. C.Hill, The world turned upside down
  4. R.Hutton, Merry England
  5. B.Reay, Popular cultures in England 1550-1750
  6. K.Sharpe & P.Lake eds., Culture and politics in early Stuart England

Religion

  1. E.Cameron, 'For reasoned faith or embattled creed', In Transactions of the Royal History Society (1998) 6:VIII, pp.165-87
  2. P.Collinson, 'Elizabethan and Jacobean Puritanism as forms of popular culture' In C.Durston &J.Eales The Culture of English puritanism
  3. D.Cressy, Bonfires and bells
  4. Eamon Duffy, 'The godly and the multitude in Stuart England', The Seventeenth Century,(1986) I, 31-55
  5. J.Friedman, 'The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies: Miracles and popular journalismduring the English Revolution', Sixteenth Century Journal (1992) XXIII/3, 419-42
  6. K. Von Greyerz, Religion and society in early modern Europe
  7. A.Walsham, '"The Fatall Vesper": Providentialism and anti-popery in late Jacobean London.'Past & Present 144 (August 1994), pp 36-87
  8. T.Watt, Cheap print and popular piety
  9. K.Wrightson & D.Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village

Gender

  1. S.D.Amussen, 'Punishment, discipline, and power: The social meanings of violence in earlymodern England', Journal of British Studies 34, (1995) pp.1-34
  2. P.Lake, 'Feminine piety and personal potency' In The Seventeenth Century (1987) 11,pp.143-65
  3. B.Y.Kunze, 'Vessells fit for the masters use', In B.Y.Kunze & D.D.Brautigam eds., Court, Country & Culture
  4. P.Mack, Visionary women: Ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth century England
  5. L.Pollock, 'Teach her to live under obedience' Continuity and Change (1989) 4, pp.231-89
  6. M.Rowlands, 'Recusant women, 1560-1640' In M.Prior (ed.) Women in English Society, 1500-1800, pp. 149-80

Professions

  1. K.Charlton, 'The professions in sixteenth-century England', University of Birmingham Historical Journal (1969) XII, 20-41
  2. M.Hawkins, 'Ambiguity and contradiction in 'the rise of professionalism': the English clergy,1570-1730', In A.L.Beier, Cannadine & Rosenheim, The first modern society,pp.241-69
  3. R.O'Day, The English clergy: the emergence and consolidation of a profession, 1558-1642

Class

  1. J.Barry & C.Brooks eds., The Middling sort
  2. A.J.Cook, The Privileged playgoers of Shakespeare's England
  3. M.Gaskill, 'The displacement of Providence: policing and prosecution in seventeenth- andeighteenth-century England', Continuity and Change (1996) 11, 341-74
  4. T.Harris, London crowds in the reign of Charles II
  5. F.Heal & C.Holmes, The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700
  6. J.H.Hexter, 'The Myth of the Middle Class' In Hexter Reappraisals in History, pp.71-116
  7. S.Hindle, 'The problem of pauper marriage' In Transactions of the Royal Historial Society (1998), 6:VIII, pp.71-89
  8. M.Ingram, 'Ridings, rough music, and the reform of "popular culture"' In Past & Present (1984) 105
  9. R.Lowe, The Diary of Roger Lowe, 1660-1674
  10. E.Russell, 'The influx of commoners into the University of Oxford' English Historical Review (1977) XCII, 721-45
  11. P.Seaver, Wallington's World
  12. P.Seaver, 'Declining status in an aspiring age' In B.Y.Kunze & D.D.Brautigam (ed.s) Court, Country & Culture
  13. J.A.Sharpe, Crime in early modern England (especially Chapters 6 & 7)
  14. D.R.Woolf, 'History, folklore and tradition in early-modern England' Past & Present (1988) 120, pp.26-52
  15. L.B.Wright, Middle class culture in Elizabethan England
  16. D.Underdown, Revel, riot and rebellion

XXIII: THE BRITISH PROBLEM

Q. From 1485 to 1707 the British margins influenced England only tangentially and occasionally. Discuss.

General

  1. R.G.Asch ed.,Three nations - A common history?
  2. B.Bradshaw & J.Morrill eds., The British problem, c.1534-1707
  3. S.G.Ellis & S.Barber eds., Conquest and union: Fashioning a British state
  4. Bruce Lenman, England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity.Modern Wars in Perspective Series.  Longman, 2001
  5. R.Hutton, 'The Triple-crowned islands' In L.K.J.Glassey ed., The reigns of Charles II and James VII & II
  6. Mark Nicholls, A History of the Modern British Isles 1529-1603: The Two Kingdoms. History of Modern Britain. Blackwell Publishers, 1999
  7. J.G.A.Pocock, Three British revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776
  8. J.G.A.Pocock, A Plea for a new subject' In Journal of Modern History (1975) 4
  9. C.Russell, The Fall of the British monarchies, 1637-42
  10. J.Wormald, 'The Creation of Britain' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1992) 6:2
Scotland

  1. I.B.Cowan, The Scottish Covenanters 1660-1688
  2. JEA Dawson et al.eds, The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots : The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland CUP 2002
  3. F.D.Dow, Cromwellian Scotland
  4. B.P.Levack, The formation of the British state
  5. B.R.Galloway, The union of England and Scotland 1603-1608
  6. B.R.Galloway & B.P.Levack eds., The Jacobean Union
  7. B.Lenman, In R.Beddard ed., The Revolutions of 1688
  8. R.Mason ed., Scots and Britons: Scottish political thought and the Union of 1603
  9. T.I.Rae ed., The Union of 1707
  10. J.Robertson, A Union for empire: Political thought and the Union of 1707
  11. T.C.Smout, Scottish trade on the eve of Union, 1660-1707
  12. D.Stevenson, The Scottish revolution 1637-44
  13. D.Stevenson, 'Cromwell, Scotalnd & Ireland' In J.Morrill ed., Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
Ireland
  1. T.C.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland
  2. Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Gaelic Ireland: Land, Lordship and Settlement, c. 1250-c. 1650
  3. C.Brady & R.Gillespie eds., Natives and Newcomers: Essays on the making of Irish colonial society 1534-1641
  4. Ciaran Brady, The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge University Press, 1994
  5. B.Bradshaw, The Irish constitutional revolution of the sixteenth century
  6. Vincent P. Carey, Surviving the Tudors: The 'Wizard' Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586. Dublin 2002
  7. N.P.Canny, From Reformation to Restoration Ireland 1534-1660
  8. S.Connolly, Law, religion and power: The making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760
  9. P.Corish, The Catholic community in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  10. S.G.Ellis, Tudor Ireland: Crown, community and the conflict of cultures
  11. Steven G. Ellis, Ireland in the Age of the Tudors 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule. Longman, 1998
  12. A.Ford, The Protestant Reformation in Ireland 1590-1641
  13. H.F.Kearney, Strafford in Ireland, 1633-41
  14. R.A.Mason, 'William Cecil and the British dimension of early Elizabethan foreign policy', History (1989) LXXIV
  15. M.Perceval-Maxwell, The Outbreak of the 1641 rebellion in Ireland
  16. Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ed, Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony Cambridge University Press, 2000
  17. Hiram Morgan, ed., Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641. Dublin 1999
  18. James Scott Wheeler, Cromwell in Ireland 1999

Wales

  1. R.R.Davies, R.A.Griffiths et al eds., Welsh society and nationhood
  2. A.H.Dodd, Studies in Stuart Wales
  3. P.R.Roberts, 'Wales and England after the Tudor Union'  C.Cross, D.Loades & J.J.Scarisbrick eds., Law and Government under the Tudors
  4. G.Williams, Recovery, Reformation & Reorientation: Wales 1415-1642
  5. P.Williams, The Council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I
  6. John Davis, A History of Wales [chapters 5 & 6]