Politics and the Nobility in Civil-War England
The suggestion that the nobility had a central role in the politics of the 1640s has recently been strenuously attacked by Professor Mark Kishlansky in his article, 'Saye what?'. 2 Professor Kishlansky argues, first, that such a view is so radical a break with the existing (and of course whig) historiography as to be implausible; and second, by way of a case-study, that the argument presented for the influence of the Lords in my article 'The English nobility and the projected settlement of 1647' 3 is entirely based on evidence which is at best tendentious and more often demonstrably false. 4 At stake is a fundamental tenet of the whig interpretation of the 'Puritan Revolution', one which as yet has been only partially eroded by revisionism: the dominance of the Commons and its political leaders within the political process. For over a century, that has been one of orthodoxy's most sacred cows. The suggestion that it should be put out to graze will, perhaps inevitably, be countered with accusations of heresy and falsifying canonical texts. of in I Kishlansky out of 5 the remainder of charges cannot be sustained. The case Professor Kishlansky up for is not mine.
Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
The making of Oliver Cromwell, John Morrill Oliver Cromwell and the Long Parliament, J.S.A.Adamson Cromwell as a soldier, Austin Woolrych the Lord Protector 1653-8, Derek Hirst Cromwell - Scotland and Ireland, David Stevenson Cromwell's religion, J.C.Davis Oliver Cromwell and the godly nation, Antony Fletcher Oliver Cromwell and English political thought, Johann Sommerville Cromwell and his contemporaries, John Morrill.
The Great Rebellion: 1642-1660
Part one: the politics of peace. Part two: the politics of conflict. Part three: the politics of healing and settling.