Blair Worden

Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.

In the LRB Archive:

• 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 on 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 takes issue with 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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