What was the English Revolution?
The first of three distinguished historians at the centre of current debates, John Morrill offers his own personal conviction about the nature of the greatest of all political upheavals in our history.
The crisis of the 1640s and 1650s in England (and in Ireland and Scotland) is surely the most fiercely contested and constantly reinterpreted of all historical debates. Historians cannot even agree what to call it: the Puritan Revolution, the Great Rebellion, the civil wars and Interregnum; the most violent expression of the General Crisis of the seventeenth century, the first European Revolution, the last of the European Wars of Religion.
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