Blair Worden

Blair Worden is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway College, London. His The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 and the paperback of his Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England have appeared this year. (July 2009)

From the Review

July 16, 2009: Hobbes & the Halo of Power

Hobbes and Republican Liberty by Quentin Skinner

July 15, 1993: Lyrical Historian

G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History by David Cannadine

Return to Essentials: Some Reflections of the Present State of Historical Study by G.R. Elton

January 17, 1991: Revising the Revolution

The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621–1624 by Thomas Cogswell

Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule by L.J. Reeve

Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War by Jacqueline Eales

Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics, 1603–1642 edited by Richard Cust, edited by Ann Hughes

November 15, 1973: Rugged Outcast

Cromwell: The Lord Protector by Antonia Fraser

Cromwell: A Profile edited by Ivan Roots

Books by Blair Worden

The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Elizabethan Politics (1996)
The Rump Parliament, 1648-1653 (1974)