Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian. He taught British history at Oxford and Princeton.
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The ‘Stress’ Revolution
April 22, 1993
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The Revolution Over the Revolution
June 11, 1992
The Causes of the English Civil War by Conrad Russell
Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World by Jack A. Goldstone
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England’s Financial Revolution
March 15, 1990
The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 16881783 by John Brewer
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The Road to Polygamy
March 2, 1989
Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society by Roderick Phillips
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Resisting the New
December 17, 1987
The New History and the Old by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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The Century of Revolution
February 26, 1987
Rebellion or Revolution? England 16401660
by Gerald E. Aylmer
Authority and Conflict: England, 16031658 by Derek Hirst
Faction and Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History edited by Kevin Sharpe
Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 16031660
by David Underdown
Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London by Paul S. Seaver
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England edited by A. Fletcher, edited by J. Stevenson
Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England by Mark Kishlansky
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Women’s History
May 30, 1985
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Only Women
April 11, 1985
The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser
Women in English Society, 15001800 edited by Mary Prior
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‘Proto-Industrialization’
October 25, 1984
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The New Eighteenth Century
March 29, 1984
In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 171460 by Linda Colley
The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England by Neil McKendrick, by John Brewer, by J.H. Plumb
Industrialization before Industrialization: Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism by Peter Kriedte, by Hans Medick, by Jürgen Schlumbohm
Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 16801730 by Geoffrey Holmes
Bath 16801850: A Social History, or, a Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity by R. S. Neale
The Impact of English Towns, 17001800 by Penelope J. Corfield
The Georgian Triumph, 17001830 by Michael Reed
The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century English Industry by John Rule
Marriage Settlements, 16011740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement by Lloyd Bonfield
Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights
by John A. Phillips
Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé
Hogarth’s Marriage À-la-mode by Robert L.S. Cowley
Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians by Barbara English, by John Saville
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
by Roy Porter
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The Geremek Case
July 21, 1983
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An Exchange with Michel Foucault
March 31, 1983
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Madness
December 16, 1982
Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries by D.P. Walker
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England by Michael MacDonald
Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century edited by Charles Webster
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era edited by Andrew Scull
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The Worm’s Eye View
April 30, 1981
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Original Sins
February 5, 1981
Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America by T.H. Breen
“Myne Owne Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by T.H. Breen, by Stephen Innes
In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century by David Grayson Allen
Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society by Daniel Blake Smith
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The Two Thompsons
November 20, 1980
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Plebes and Patricians
May 29, 1980
An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries edited by John Brewer, edited by John Styles
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In the Alleys of Mentalité
November 8, 1979
Le territoire de l’historien by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
The Territory of the Historian by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Ben Reynolds, by Siân Reynolds
Carnival in Romans by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Mary Feeney
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Goodbye to Nearly All That
April 19, 1979
The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition by Alan Macfarlane
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Tuchman and History
December 7, 1978
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Death in New England
October 26, 1978
The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change by David E. Stannard
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Death and Its History
October 12, 1978
L’Homme devant la mort fall of 1979) by Philippe Ariès
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum
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The Worst of Times?
September 28, 1978
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
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Growing Old: An Exchange
September 15, 1977
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Old People’s Progress
July 14, 1977
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Walking Over Grandma
May 12, 1977
Growing Old in America by David Hackett Fischer
“Age and Authority in Early Modern England” by Keith Thomas
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The True History of the Catholics in England
February 3, 1977
The English Catholic Community 1570-1850 by John Bossy
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Whigs, Marxists, and Poachers
February 5, 1976
Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England by Douglas Hay, by Peter Linebaugh, by John G. Rule, by E. P. Thompson, by Cal Winslow
Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act by E. P. Thompson
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The Massacre of the Innocents
November 14, 1974
The Changing Nature of Man: Introduction to a Historical Psychology (Metabletica) John Holt) by J.H. van den Berg, translated by H.F. Croes
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life by Philippe Ariès, translated by Robert Baldick
Parents and Children in History: The Psychology of Family Life in Early Modern France by David Hunt
The History of Childhood edited by Lloyd deMause
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How Nasty Was Thomas Cromwell?
March 22, 1973
Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell by G. R. Elton
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Witches & Beggars
May 4, 1972
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The Disenchantment of the World
December 2, 1971
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan MacFarlane
Witchcraft at Salem by Chadwick Hansen
Magistrats et Sorciers en France au 17e Siècle by Robert Mandrou
The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England by Christopher Hill
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The Ninnyversity?
January 28, 1971
Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and Society in Pre-Industrial Britain, 1500-1700 by H.F. Kearney
The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought by R.L. Greaves
Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery by Ivan Berg
La Reproduction: Eléments pour une Théorie du Système d’Enseignement by P. Bourdieu, by J.C. Passeron
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“Princeton in the Nation’s Service”
June 18, 1970
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Revolution Then
April 23, 1970
The Court and the Country by Perez Zagorin
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Community of Scholars?
November 7, 1968
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Charte De Nanterre
October 10, 1968
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Two Cheers for the University
August 22, 1968
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Lo-Marx
February 1, 1968
The English: A History of Politics and Society to 1760 by Norman F. Cantor
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After the Revolution
September 28, 1967
The Origins of Political Stability: England, 1675-1725 by J.H. Plumb
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News from Everywhere
August 24, 1967
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore Jr.
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Is It Fair to Weber?
January 26, 1967
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That Was the Reformation That Was
December 29, 1966
Reformation and Society in Sixteenth Century Europe by A.G. Dickens
Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 by G.R. Elton
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Communication from Buttocks
April 28, 1966
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The Century of Crisis
March 3, 1966
Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660
edited by Trevor Aston
The Revolution of the Saints
by Michael Walzer
The World We Have Lost by Peter Laslett
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England’s Revolution
August 26, 1965
Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
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Pieter Geyl
April 8, 1965
The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century by Pieter Geyl
History of the Low Countries: Episodes and Problems by Pieter Geyl
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History à la Mode
September 10, 1964
A Coffin for King Charles by C.V. Wedgwood