Basing his study on extensive new research Professor Russell provides the fullest account yet available of the origins of one of the most significant events in British history.

A history of London during the English Civil Wars, including a guide to sites today.

Julie Spraggon offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, which led to a resurgence of image breaking a century after the break with Rome. She examines parliamentary legislation, its enforcement & the parallel action undertaken by the army to rid the land of superstition.

In his new introduction to this second edition, Ronald Hutton places his vivid account of the royalist war effort into modern historical context, bringing the reader up-to-date with the recent developments in the study of the civil war.

Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829-1902) was a Victorian historian of the seventeenth century, noted for his use of and editorial work on primary sources. This ten-volume edition of his history of the period 1603 to 1642 was published in 1883-4.

England on Edge traces the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the established church, and the accompanying cultural panic that led to civil war. Focused on the years 1640 to 1642, it examines social and religious turmoil and the emergence of an unrestrained popular press. Hundreds of people not normally seen in historical surveys make appearances here, in a drama much larger than the struggle of king and parliament.

This book is also available as part of the Men-at-Arms series as no. 14: 'The English Civil War Armies'. Beginning with the outbreak of the first Civil War in 1642 and ending with the Restoration of King Charles in 1660, this book studies the Cavalier and Parliamentarian armies who fought in these conflicts. In 30 years of bloodshed, counties were divided and families were split, as men and women followed their individual allegiances.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.