The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

A Handbook exploring how the events of the English Revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - and demonstrating the long-term impacts of the crisis on the kingdoms themselves, as well as in a broader European context.

Michael J. Braddick was educated at Cambridge University where he took both his BA and PhD degrees. Before coming to Sheffield in 1990, he taught at the University of Alabama and Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2009-2013. Braddick has held visiting positions at the Huntington Library, California, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on aspects of state formation and popular politics, the English revolution, and the growth of the British Atlantic world.

- Introduction
- 1: Michael J. Braddick: Civil war and revolution in England, Scotland and Ireland
- 2: Peter Lake: Post-Reformation Politics, or on not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War
- Events
- 3: Julian Goodare: The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637-1644
- 4: Richard Cust: The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637-1642
- 5: Joseph Cope: The Irish Rising
- 6: Michael J. Braddick: War and politics in England and Wales 1642-1646
- 7: Laura A. M. Stewart: Scottish Politics, 1644-1651
- 8: Micheál Ó Siochrú: The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643-1649
- 9: Philip Baker: The regicide
- 10: Derek Hirst: Security and Reform in England's Other Nations 1649-1658
- 11: David L. Smith: English politics in the 1650s
- 12: Tim Harris: The Restoration in Britain and Ireland
- Institutions and Actors
- 13: J. C. Davis: Oliver Cromwell
- 14: David L. Smith: Parliaments and Constitutions
- 15: Andrew Hopper: The Armies
- 16: Jason Peacey: The Revolution in Print
- 17: Stephen K. Roberts: State and Society in the English Revolution
- 18: Phil Withington: Urban Citizens and England's Civil Wars
- 19: John Walter: Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution
- 20: Ann Hughes: 'Gender trouble': Women's agency and gender relations in the English Revolution
- 21: R. Scott Spurlock: State, politics and society in Scotland, 1637-1660
- 22: Toby Barnard: State, politics and society in Ireland, 1641-1662
- Parties, Ideas and People
- 23: Alan Cromartie: The Persistence of Royalism
- 24: Rachel Foxley: Varieties of Parliamentarianism
- 25: Ted Vallance: Political thought
- 26: John Coffey: Religious Thought
- 27: Steven N. Zwicker: 'May you live in interesting times': The literature of Civil War, Revolution and Restoration
- 28: Timothy Wilks: The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution and Restoration
- Wider Perspectives
- 29: John Miller: The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development
- 30: Mark Knights: The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: State Formation, Political Culture, and Ideology
- 31: Laura Lunger Knoppers: Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art
- 32: John Morrill: The English Revolution in British and Irish context
- 33: Peter H. Wilson: Kingdom Divided: the British and Continental European Conflicts Compared