J.P.Sommerville

 

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