J.P.Sommerville

 

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