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Bibliography and Resources
This is one of those subjects that generates millions of written words, and this list comprises only a few texts that were found helpful.
General secondary accounts
Titles marked * were also useful for primary source materials
Adair, John. By the sword divided: eyewitness accounts of the English Civil War. London, 1983.
Bennett, Martyn. The Civil Wars experienced: Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661. London, 2000.
Carlton, Charles. Going to the wars: the experience of the British civil wars 1638-1651. London, 1992
Cressy, David. Birth, marriage and death: ritual, religion and the life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford, 1997.
Durston, Christopher. The family in the English Revolution. Oxford, 1989.
*Fraser, Antonia. The weaker vessel: woman's lot in seventeenth-century England. London, 1984.
Hill, Christopher. The world turned upside down: radical ideas during the English revolution. 1972.
Hill, Christopher. The century of revolution, 1603-1714. London, 1974.
Kenyon, John et al (eds). The civil wars: a military history of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660. Oxford, 1998.
Mendelson, Sara. 'Stuart women's diaries and occasional memoirs', in Mary Prior (ed), Women in English society 1500-1800. London, 1985.
*O'Dowd, Mary. 'Women and war in Ireland in the 1640s', in M MacCurtain and M O'Dowd (eds), Women in early modern Ireland. Edinburgh, 1991.
Ollard, Richard. This war without an enemy: a history of the English civil war. Fontana, 1976.
Slater, Miriam. Family life in the seventeenth century: the Verneys of Claydon House London, 1984.
Primary Sources
Bennitt, F W (ed). 'The diary of Isabella Twysden, wife of Sir Roger Twysden, baronet, of Royden Hall, East Peckham, 1645-1651'.Archaeologia Cantiana, 51 (1939).
Fanshawe, H C
(ed). The memoirs of Ann, lady Fanshawe. London, 1907.
(also J Loftis (ed), Memoirs
of Anne, Lady Halket and Anne, Lady Fanshawe, Oxford, 1981.)
Feilding, Cecilia. Royalist father and roundhead son: the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675. London, 1915.
Jackson, Charles (ed). The autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton. Surtees Society, 62 (1875)
The manuscripts of Lord Kenyon HMC Fourteenth Report, Appendix, Part IV. London, 1894.
Lewis, T T (ed). The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley. Camden Society, 58 (1854).
Verney, Frances P and Verney, Margaret M (eds). Memoirs of the Verney family during the seventeenth century, vol. 1. London, 1904.
British Civil Wars and Revolution
(Many of these contain at least a selection of primary source materials)
Bibliography of Tudor and Stuart Britain (H-Albion)
Books on the Civil Wars and aftermath (Military Books Online)
Civil Wars of Ideas (Norton Topics Online)
The English Revolution (Modern History Sourcebook)
The World Turned Upside Down (Kirk Wattles)
Oliver Cromwell's Internet Portal (Cromwell Association)
Radical Women during the English Revolution (Modern History Sourcebook)
The Levellers and the Diggers (Tony Gosling, Land and Freedom)
English Civil War Resource Page (Owen Crossby)
English Civil War Publications (L E Pearson)
British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate (David Plant)
English Civil War 1642-48 (Electric Library)
Personal Narratives of War
World Wars I & II (American Memory) (scroll down the index to the links) personal narratives by both men and women
Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, 1832-1915 (Documenting the American South) A southern woman's war time reminiscences (published 1905)
Eyewitness 'History through the eyes of those who lived it'
What did you do in the war, Grandma? (South Kingstown High School) an oral history project of Rhode Island women during World War II
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