Britain in Revolution: 1625-1660

Austin Woolrych

Oxford University Press, 2002 - History - 814 pages

This is the definitive history of the English Civil War, set in its full historical context from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II. These were the most turbulent years of British history and their reverberations have been felt down the centuries. Throughout the middle decades of the seventeenth century England, Scotland, and Ireland were convulsed by political upheaval and wracked by rebellion and civil war. The Stuart monarchy was in abeyance for twenty years in all three kingdoms, and Charles I famously met his death on the scaffold. Austin Woolrych breathes life back into the story of these years, the sweep of his prose buttressed by the authority of a lifetime's scholarship. He captures the drama and the passion, the momentum of events and the force of contingency. He brilliantly interweaves the history of the three kingdoms and their peoples, gripping the reader with the fast-paced yet always balanced story. - Publisher.

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User Review  - imngrer - Goodreads

I would give this book 5 stars if only for it having the best opening paragraph of any book on English history I have ever come across. Naturally the rest of the (extremely large) book is wonderful ...

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User Review  - Diana Thayer - Goodreads

Very well-written, interesting book.

About the author

Austin Woolrych is a former Professor of History, University of Sheffield.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Britain in Revolution: 1625-1660
• Author: Austin Woolrych
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0198200811, 9780198200819
• Length: 814 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain