J.P.Sommerville

 

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)