Contracting Out: Administrative Privatisation in the Reign of James I
Conrad Russell looks at the perks and pitfalls of public office-holding in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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The Bourgeois Revolution: A Mirage?
Conrad Russell asks if England has ever had a revolution.
England's Last Poll Tax
Conrad Russell examines the evil reputation attached to the poll tax.
Why did Charles I fight the Civil War?
Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him.