 | Havoc, in Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A remarkable novel on the cultural and religious disorders that would lead to war. It's also eerily topical.
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 | The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History) by Christopher Hill
Buy new: £6.93 / Used from: £5.17 For my money, the best historian of the period.
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 | Britain in Revolution: 1625-1660 by Austin Woolrych
Buy new: £30.40 / Used from: £24.75 Vast, compendious: if you only buy one history, make it this one.
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 | The English Civil War: A Military History of Three Civil Wars, 1642-51 (Wordsworth Military Library) by Peter Young
Buy used from: £12.50 Succinct on the military stuff.
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 | Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.71 Brings the physical realities of the period pungently to life.
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 | The Putney Debates (Revolutions Series) by The Levellers
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £4.35 Documenting a remarkable and important moment in political consciousness. The 'middling sort' gave voice to ideas of liberty and democracy which would resonate generations later.
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 | Caryl Churchill - Plays: 1 - 'Owners', 'Traps', 'Vinegar Tom', 'Light Shining in Buckinghamshire', 'Cloud Nine' (Methuen World Classics): "Owners"; ... in Buckinghamshire"; "Cloud Nine" Vol 1 by Caryl Churchill
Buy new: £10.65 / Used from: £1.97 Churchill's play, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, imagines the radical groups that briefly flourished after the war and before the dictatorship of Cromwell.
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 | Ghost Portrait by Gregory Norminton
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 My own novel does something similar, through the eyes of an English painter. "A timeless story of professional compromise and personal betrayal... beautiful" - The Guardian
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