Austin Woolrych: 2 books

Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the Protectorate, and finally offers some guidelines to the tangled period between Cromwell's death and the Restoration.

First published in 1961, these masterly studies of three major English Civil War clashes at Marston Moor, Naseby and Preston provide detailed background, painstakingly recounted military developments, and pays equal attention to the political and religious concerns of the time. “An excellent...