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

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

The Protector

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

Politics, representative assemblies, legislation and finance

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

Bureaucracy and 'court'

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

Foreign policy

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

Local government and the "county community" school

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

- opposed by

27. C Holmes, 'The county community in Stuart historiography' Journal of British Studies 19 (1980)
28. C Holmes, Seventeenth-century Lincolnshire
    [and see the useful review by A Fletcher in Historical Journal 25 (1982)]
29. 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']

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

Political Opposition

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

Reform in law and science

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

Essays

37. J Morrill, ed., Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
38. I Roots, ed., Cromwell, a profile
39. G Aylmer, ed., The Interregnum
40. C. Davis, Oliver Cromwell 2001

Also:

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