Blair Worden

Blair Worden is a visiting professor of history at Oxford. The English Civil War 1640-60 is out in paperback.

In the LRB Archive:

• In Myrtle Bowers: Cavaliers · 30 June 2011

  • Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs

• Double Tongued: Worshipping Marvell · 18 November 2010

  • Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon by Nigel Smith

• Godly Mafia: Aristocrats v. the King · 24 May 2007

  • The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I by John Adamson

• Mingling Freely at the Mermaid: 17th-century poets and politics · 6 November 2003

  • The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies
  • The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60 by Alastair Bellany

• Which play was performed at the Globe Theatre on 7 February 1601?: A Play for Plotters · 10 July 2003

• ‘Wondered at as an owl’: Cromwell’s Bad Idea · 7 February 2002

  • Cromwell’s Major-Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution by Christopher Durston

• Pens and Heads: printing and reading · 24 August 2000

  • The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns
  • Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe

• Factory of the Revolution: Quentin Skinner · 5 February 1998

  • Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner

• Conviction on the High Seas · 6 February 1997

  • Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy 1650-68 by Steven Pincus

• Pocock’s Positions · 4 November 1993

  • Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain edited by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner

• Despairing Radicals · 25 June 1992

  • Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet by Katherine Duncan-Jones
  • Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis by Jonathan Scott
  • Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage by Alan Craig Houston
  • Milton’s ‘History of Britain’: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution by Nicholas von Maltzahn

• Conrad Russell’s Civil War · 29 August 1991

  • The Causes of the English Civil War by Conrad Russell
  • The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637-1642 by Conrad Russell

• Out of the East · 11 October 1990

  • The King’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey by Peter Gwyn
  • Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution edited by John Morrill
  • The Writings of William Walwyn edited by Jack McMichael and Barbara Taft

• Tolerant Repression · 10 May 1990

  • Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal by Tom Mayer
  • Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII by Alistair Fox
  • The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Portraits at the Court of Henry VIII by Retha Warnicke
  • English Travellers Abroad 1604-1667 by John Stoye

• Lawful Resistance · 24 November 1988

  • Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 1623-1677 by Jonathan Scott
  • Seeds of Liberty: 1688 and the Shaping of Modern Britain by John Miller
  • Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 by W.A. Speck
  • War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough by D.W. Jones
  • Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of State and Premier Minister by Brian Hill
  • A Kingdom without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688 by Robert Beddard

• Intellectual Liberation · 21 January 1988

  • Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans by Hugh Trevor-Roper
  • Archbishop William Laud by Charles Carlton
  • Clarendon and his Friends by Richard Ollard
  • Anti-Calvinists by Nicholas Tyacke
  • Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe

• Strange Talk at Putney · 23 July 1987

  • Soldiers and Statesmen: The General Council of the Army and its Debates, 1647-1648 by Austin Woolrych

• Friend to Sir Philip Sidney · 3 July 1986

  • The Prose Works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke edited by John Gouws

• Calvinisms · 23 January 1986

  • International Calvinism 1541-1715 edited by Menna Prestwich
  • Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in 17th-Century London by Paul Seaver

• Insolence · 7 March 1985

  • Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance by David Norbrook
  • Restoration Theatre Production by Jocelyn Powell
  • Theatre and Crisis: 1632-1642 by Martin Butler
  • The Court Masque edited by David Lindley
  • Ben Jonson, Dramatist by Anne Barton

• Sexual Whiggery · 7 June 1984

  • The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in 17th-Century England by Antonia Fraser
  • Family Life in the 17th Century: The Verneys of Claydon House by Miriam Slater

• Puritan Neuroses · 19 April 1984

  • The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England by J.T. Cliffe
  • The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County by William Hunt
  • Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism by Patrick Collinson
  • Laud’s Laboratory: The Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Early 17th Century by Margaret Steig
  • The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression by Patricia Caldwell
  • Protestant Reformers in Elizabethan Oxford by C.M. Dent

• Rescuing the bishops · 21 April 1983

  • The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625 by Patrick Collinson
  • Reactions to the English Civil War 1642-1649 edited by John Morrill
  • The World of the Muggletonians by Christopher Hill, Barry Reay and William Lamont
  • The Life of John Milton by A.N. Wilson
  • Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Vol. 8: 1666-1682 edited by Maurice Kelley
  • The Poet’s Time: Politics and Religion in the Works of Andrew Marvell by Warren Chernaik

• Constancy · 10 January 1983

  • Neostoicism and the Early Modern State by Gerhard Oestreich, edited by Brigitta Oestreich and H.G. Koenigsberger, translated by David McLintock

• Hebrew without tears · 20 May 1982

  • Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England 1603-1655 by David Katz

• War without an Enemy · 21 January 1982

  • The Outbreak of the English Civil War by Anthony Fletcher
  • The Royalist War Effort by Ronald Hutton

• Critical Bibliography · 22 January 1981

  • Seventeenth-Century Britain 1603-1714 by J.S. Morrill

• Unmatched Antiquary · 21 February 1980

  • Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe

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