Jackie Eales

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw views the conflict through the sad case of Bulstrode Whitelock and Edward Hyde.

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil and Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration bring Tudor and Stuart espionage in from the cold.

From backbench MP and minor gentleman to Lord Protector and almost-king, a new edition provides the most complete and accurate version of Oliver Cromwell’s writings to date.

Civil War politics amongst MPs and the New Model Army.

A hidden network of 17th-century female spies

The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne & the English Revolution by Michael Braddick charts his remarkable rise.