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The essays have been carefully revised, a new introduction glues them together, and a meticulously comprehensive index makes for easy cross referencing. Much scholarship is paraded here ... insights and pithy verdicts abound. [Worden] writes in a gently argumentative way, engaging with other historians without being brutal or belittling. R. C Richardson, Times Higher Education a coherence that sheds so much light on Cromwell's reign that it dazzles ... quite simply indispensable. Adrian Tinniswood, Literary Review

The essays have been carefully revised, a new introduction glues them together, and a meticulously comprehensive index makes for easy cross referencing. Much scholarship is paraded here ... insights and pithy verdicts abound. [Worden] writes in a gently argumentative way, engaging with other historians without being brutal or belittling. R. C Richardson, Times Higher Education a coherence that sheds so much light on Cromwell's reign that it dazzles ... quite simply indispensable. Adrian Tinniswood, Literary Review The resulting volume will of course be indispensable for fellow specialists; but it also offers a fine introduction, for the general reader, to some of the best modern historical thinking on the political and mental worlds of the Cromwellian era. Noel Malcolm, Standpoint It is a collection which deserves to be and will be ... treasured, and revisited for its salutary and important wisdom. Professor Martyn Bennett, Reviews in History

The essays have been carefully revised, a new introduction glues them together, and a meticulously comprehensive index makes for easy cross referencing. Much scholarship is paraded here ... insights and pithy verdicts abound. [Worden] writes in a gently argumentative way, engaging with other historians without being brutal or belittling. R. C Richardson, Times Higher Education a coherence that sheds so much light on Cromwell's reign that it dazzles ... quite simply indispensable. Adrian Tinniswood, Literary Review The resulting vilume will of course be indispensible for fellow specialists; but it also offers a fine introduction, for the general reader, to some of the best modern historical thinking on the political and mental worlds of the Cromwellian era. Noel Malcolm, Standpoint

The essays have been carefully revised, a new introduction glues them together, and a meticulously comprehensive index makes for easy cross referencing. Much scholarship is paraded here ... insights and pithy verdicts abound. [Worden] writes in a gently argumentative way, engaging with other historians without being brutal or belittling. * R. C Richardson, Times Higher Education * a coherence that sheds so much light on Cromwell's reign that it dazzles ... quite simply indispensable. * Adrian Tinniswood, Literary Review * The resulting volume will of course be indispensable for fellow specialists; but it also offers a fine introduction, for the general reader, to some of the best modern historical thinking on the political and mental worlds of the Cromwellian era. * Noel Malcolm, Standpoint * It is a collection which deserves to be and will be ... treasured, and revisited for its salutary and important wisdom. * Professor Martyn Bennett, Reviews in History * this is a vibrant and compelling examination of the (religiously informed and shaped) government and politics of the English republic and of its charismatic leading figure, Oliver Cromwell. * Peter Gaunt, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *

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Blair Worden studied at Pembroke College Oxford and Harvard before becoming a Research Fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge and then Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College Cambridge. He then returned to Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor in History at St Edmund Hall from 1974 to 1995. He was Professor of History at Sussex from 1996 to 2003 and Research Professor of History at Royal Holloway College London from 2005-11. He has taught and has been Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor at the Huntingdon Library in California. He was Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society from 1986 to 1990, and British Academy Research Professor from 2000-2003.

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