The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England s century of civil war and revolution and the major themes of the period including the causes of the English Civil War, the nature of the English Revolution, the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell, the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England, and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain.

The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart Age. The new edition expands on...

Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory over a Royalist army commanded by King Charles I's nephew, Prince Rupert, on rolling moorland west of York. But that battle, Marston Moor, had also slain his own nephew, the recipient's firstborn. In this vividly narrated history of the deadly conflict that engulfed the nation during the 1640s, Peter...