A Handbook exploring how the events of the English Revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - and demonstrating the long-term impacts of the crisis on the kingdoms themselves, as well as in a broader European context.

Introduction 1: Michael J. Braddick: Civil war and revolution in England, Scotland and Ireland 2: Peter Lake: Post-Reformation Politics, or on not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War Events 3: Julian Goodare: The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637-1644 4: Richard Cust: The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637-1642 5: Joseph Cope: The Irish Rising 6: Michael J. Braddick: War and politics in England and Wales 1642-1646 7: Laura A. M. Stewart: Scottish Politics, 1644-1651 8: Micheál Ó Siochrú: The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643-1649 9: Philip Baker: The regicide 10: Derek Hirst: Security and Reform in England's Other Nations 1649-1658 11: David L. Smith: English politics in the 1650s 12: Tim Harris: The Restoration in Britain and Ireland Institutions and Actors 13: J. C. Davis: Oliver Cromwell 14: David L. Smith: Parliaments and Constitutions 15: Andrew Hopper: The Armies 16: Jason Peacey: The Revolution in Print 17: Stephen K. Roberts: State and Society in the English Revolution 18: Phil Withington: Urban Citizens and England's Civil Wars 19: John Walter: Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution 20: Ann Hughes: 'Gender trouble': Women's agency and gender relations in the English Revolution 21: R. Scott Spurlock: State, politics and society in Scotland, 1637-1660 22: Toby Barnard: State, politics and society in Ireland, 1641-1662 Parties, Ideas and People 23: Alan Cromartie: The Persistence of Royalism 24: Rachel Foxley: Varieties of Parliamentarianism 25: Ted Vallance: Political thought 26: John Coffey: Religious Thought 27: Steven N. Zwicker: 'May you live in interesting times': The literature of Civil War, Revolution and Restoration 28: Timothy Wilks: The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution and Restoration Wider Perspectives 29: John Miller: The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development 30: Mark Knights: The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: State Formation, Political Culture, and Ideology 31: Laura Lunger Knoppers: Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art 32: John Morrill: The English Revolution in British and Irish context 33: Peter H. Wilson: Kingdom Divided: the British and Continental European Conflicts Compared

Provides a unique introduction to the English Revolution and the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context Brings together perspectives from thirty-one foremost scholars in the field of English Revolution studies Offers an up-to-date survey of the social, political, and religious thought of the time Suggests alternative viewpoints to the scholarship and debate of the past few decades, providing a potential focus for new research agendas

Michael J. Braddick was educated at Cambridge University where he took both his BA and PhD degrees. Before coming to Sheffield in 1990, he taught at the University of Alabama and Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2009-2013. Braddick has held visiting positions at the Huntington Library, California, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on aspects of state formation and popular politics, the English revolution, and the growth of the British Atlantic world.

Provides a unique introduction to the English Revolution and the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context Brings together perspectives from thirty-one foremost scholars in the field of English Revolution studies Offers an up-to-date survey of the social, political, and religious thought of the time Suggests alternative viewpoints to the scholarship and debate of the past few decades, providing a potential focus for new research agendas