From: JACOBS ELLEN <jacobs.ellen@uqam.ca>
Dear Anne, I saw your call for suggestions for Tudor/Stuart readings; you
might check out the various works by J.H. Plumb who is still a good
introduction for students, either his book , THE GROWTH OF POLITICAL
STABILITY or his FIRST FOUR GEORGES; there is L.B. Namier and his thesis
re: Parliament [a classic, you probably studied] and more recently on
political parties see works by W.A.Speck.
Linda Colley has written a very interesting book, BRITONS, on the
formation of national identity and students might enjoy that. I think
those are some basic texts that might be of interest,
Best wishes,
Ellen
Jacobs.Ellen@uqam.ca
From: "Susan D. Amussen" <amussen@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
Dear Anne Moss,
Among recent authors, you should probably look at work by David
Underdown, Conrad Russell, John Morrill, and maybe Richard Cust and Tom
Cogswell for political history; Peter Lake on religious history, as well
as Patrick Collinson; on social history, you should look at the work of
Cynthia Herrup, Margaret Spufford, and maybe some others. If you get a
sense of what these people are up to, you'll have a sense of the field.
I hope this helps,
Susan Amussen
From: RSMILLARD@aol.com
Anne:
You will doubtless get many responses to your inquiry from those more
qualified than myself, but I will venture a few thoughts. The bibliographies
of these should lead you to most of what you need:
1. Some recent well-regarded standard texts:
John Guy: Tudor England (OUP 1988)
Christopher Haigh: English Reformations (OUP 1993)
Barry Coward: The Stuart Age (2d ed 1994)
Derek Hirst: Authority and Conflict, 1603-1658 (1986)
J. R. Jones: Country and Court, 1658-1714 (1978)
2. The MacMillan Series "British History in Perspective" consists of
excellent short studies with good bibliographies, oriented toward the most
current historiography:
Richard Rex: Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1993)
D. M. Loades: The Mid Tudor Crisis, 1545-1565 (1992)
Diarmid MacCulloch: The Later Reformation in England (1990)
Anne Hughes: The Causes of the English Civil War (1991)
Ronald Hutton: The British Republic, 1649-1660 (1990)
Paul Seaward: The Restoration, 1660-1688 (1991)
3. Collections of Essays:
Richard Cust and Anne Hughes: Conflict in Early Stuart
England (1989);
Kenneth Fincham: The Early Stuart Church (1993);
Christopher Haigh: The English Reformation Revised (1987);
Tim Harris, Paul Seaward and Mark Goldie: The Politics of
Religion in Restoration England (1990);
Geoffrey Holmes: Britain After the Glorious Revolution
(1969);
J. R. Jones: The Restored Monarchy (1979)
John Morrill: Reactions to the English Civil War (1982)
John Morrill: The Impact of the English Civil War (1990)
Howard Tomlinson: Before the English Civil War (1983)
4. Some of my favorite specialized studies (largely political):
Andrew Coleby: Central Government and the Localities
(1987)
Gary De Krey: A Fractured Society (1985)
Eamon Duffy: The Stripping of the Altars (1992)
Peter Gwynn: King's Cardinal [Wolsey] (1990)
Tim Harris: London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II (1988)
Tim Harris: Politics Under the Later Stuarts (1993)
Ronald Hutton: The Restoration, 1658-1667 (OUP 1985)
Ronald Hutton: Charles II (1989)
D. M. Loades: Mary Tudor (1989)
Conrad Russell: Parliaments and English Politics,
1620-1629 (1977)
Conrad Russell: The Fall of the British Monarchies,
1637-1642 (1991)
Conrad Russell: The Causes of the English Civil War (1990)
Jonathan Scott: Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis
(1991)
Kevin Sharpe: The Personal Rule of Charles I (1992)
David Underdown: Pride's Purge (1971)
Austin Woolrych: Commonwealth to Protectorate (1982)
Blair Worden: The Rump Parliament (1974)
5. A Short Survey of the Historiography:
R.C. Richardson: The Debate on the English Revolution
Revised (199?)
If you cross-check this list and your other responses against each other, I
expect you will find that certain titles come up again and again. Best
regards.
Dick Millard
From: HARVEY@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Best thing to start with these days--post Elton--is John Guy's Tudor England.
Cheers
Actually I should have mentioned, for Stuart, Barry Coward's The Stuart Age,
which is probably the best thing to start with.
Cheers.
From: jenkins@uamont.edu
Anne,
You didn't mention how long it has been since you did undergrad work in this
field, so you may know about the Carolly Erickson books on many of the major
Tudors. Another couple of books that contain enough detail, scandal, and
social history to make excellent, absorbing reading (and to get you back
"up-to-snuff") are Antonia Fraser's WIVES OF HENRY VIII and Alison Weir's
THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER. There's no reason why your summer reading list
should be dry and painful! Jan Jenkins, University of Arkansas Monticello