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Christopher Durston's and Jacqueline Eales's edition of The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700 (London: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 332. Pb. 13.99 £) is a splendid collection of essays which will undoubtedly [...]

Sharon L. Jansen's Dangerous Talk and Strange Behaviour. Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 232. 26.50 £) surveys ground familiar to Tudor [...]

There was, perhaps, something less to Joseph Priestley than met the eye. If the violence he encountered during the Birmingham riots of 1791 provided ample justification for a decision to [...]

Scholarly interest in those early modern Englishmen and women who rejected the magisterial aspirations of 'official' Protestantism and claimed the right to formulate and live out their own religious convictions [...]

That the American Revolution should be seen in the context of an unprecedented surge of British imperial development is, if not a new idea, certainly a concept well worth recalling. [...]

The subtitle, Neomercantilism and the American Revolution, of John E. Crowley's The Privileges of Independence (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1993; pp. xiv + 215. £27) offers a more precise indication [...]

That a study so clearly the product of detailed and careful scholarship as is Marc Egnal's A Mighty Empire. The Origins of the American Revolution (Ithaca/London: Cornell U. P., 1988; [...]

ed. Richard Griffiths (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 204. 47.50 £). The Bible in the Renaissance is a big topic, too big for a slim volume of conference proceedings displaying the [...]

New work on the religious history of the Marian period is always welcome. Though sustained over many years by the formidable scholarship of David Loades, serious study of Queen Mary's [...]

Of the many eminent Elizabethans clamouring for a modern biography, Robert Persons has had to wait far too long. Past neglect is perhaps understandable: admirers of Gloriana had little time [...]

The precise pattern and significance of the events which marked the incorporation of Quebec into the British Empire have long provided topics for debate: the protracted and extensive concern of [...]