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.
The rise of the new model Army
Preface Abbreviations Part I. Parliament Truimphant: 1. The parliamentary cause 2. The creation of the new model army 3. The triumph of the new model army 4. The assault on parliamentary politics Part II. Parliament Eclispsed: 5. The collapse of parliamentary politics 6. The reign of parties 7. The rise of the new model army 8. The emergence of radical politics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
The Clarke papers : selections from the papers of William Clarke
Introduction Extracts from William Clarke's Notebooks Appendices Select Bibliography Index of Correspondents General index.