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An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics.

Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.

What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne

An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change.

A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war.

The wider repercussions and consequences of Charles II's personal rule are discussed, with special reference to the fledgling Tory and Whig parties.

A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance.

A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II

The study shows how the 1641 Irish Rebellion played an integral role in politicizing the English people and escalating the political crisis of the 1640s.

Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.