English Civil War

Richard Cavendish visits an organisation dedicated to preserving the memory of Oliver Cromwell.

Chris Durston records how the monstrous and the supernatural were seized on by political and religious factions in seventeenth century England as signs of judgment.

Civil War in England brought destruction and damage in town and country far more akin to continental warfare than has often been supposed.

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.

John Morrill examines the historiography of the English Civil Wars.

1982 marks the tercentenary of the death of Prince Rupert, the most brilliant of Charles I's generals. As Hugh Trevor-Roper here documents, he was single-minded in his chosen craft of war, but Rupert was never able to grasp the complexities of the contemporary situation.

Ivan Roots on the brief reign of Richard Cromwell.

J. H. M. Salmon looks at Romantic literary interpretations of Oliver Cromwell.

C.V. Wedgwood challenges the accepted view of Charles I's fated minister, Thomas Wentworth.