Volume 38, Number 1 & 2 · January 17, 1991
Revising the Revolution
By Blair Worden
The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621–1624
by Thomas Cogswell
Cambridge University Press, 349 pp., $59.50
Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule
by L.J. Reeve
Cambridge University Press, 325 pp., $59.50
Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War
by Jacqueline Eales
Cambridge University Press, 225 pp., $44.50
Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics, 1603–1642
edited by Richard Cust, edited by Ann Hughes
Longman, 271 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Historians are sometimes asked to say what the verdict of history will be upon the issues and personalities of contemporary politics. The only certain answer is that whatever history decides, it will change its mind. On no subject can it have changed its mind more often than the civil wars of mid-seventeenth-century England, an event on which the passions of posterity have run almost as high as those of the participants. The participants themselves cared deeply how posterity would judge their choices and their conduct, a concern generally ignored by historians and yet largely responsible for the memoirs and diaries on which historical interpretation has depended and by which it has been shaped.
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