Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60

This is an exciting new collection of historical essays focussed on the institution of Parliament between 1640–60. It has a wide thematic, geographic and temporal scope and offers valuable insights about the future study of the period’s political history. -- .

Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60 considerably advances our understanding of Parliament’s place in seventeenth-century political culture and of the political practices which informed British and Irish political life between 1640 and 1660. Ten scholars offer a range of innovative perspectives on Parliament in the revolutionary era. Each chapter provides important historiographical interventions which cumulatively construct a new perspective on Parliament during the most tumultuous period of its history. Read together, the contributions to this volume demonstrate the benefits of returning to the study of parliamentary history with the lessons of recent scholarship in mind while also showing the value of reincorporating a focus on the institution of Parliament into discussions of the mid-seventeenth century. -- .