Over the past fifty or sixty years, interpretations of the English Civil War, which have always been controversial, have become so in a new sense. Previously the disputes were about the rights and wrongs of the war. Now they are about the causes of its outbreak and course. Historians are expected to have, not a preference for one side, but an analytical line.

Dec 2005

A Polite People?

An Eie for Detail

Into the Howling Wilderness

Epiphany on Trumpington Street

Royal and Ancient

A Very British Coup

Of Margraves and Massacres

Singing in the Reign

Far From Glorious

To Kill A King

A Society Of Stages

Authority Figure

Politician, Know Thyself

The Sage of Norwich

@Lit_Review

Last Tweets