Primary Sources: England

Wide range of accessible source material covering the principal aspects of the mid-seventeenth century crisis, and a guide to the progressive, revisionist, post-revisionist and other historiographical debates involved. The source material offers different perspectives from various levels of society, drawing on controversial literature, official records, private correspondence, diaries, reports of grass roots reactions, minutes of debates, contemporary illustrations and petitions. Each document has an introduction which provides contextual information. The book also contains a comprehensive glossary of seventeenth century terms appearing in the source material and a chronology of events for reference.

Writings about the plague.

This book will appeal to readership interested in the seventeenth-century. The extracts range from private diaries and letters to literary works and formal constitutional programmes.

Diaries written by 17th century Englishman Samuel Pepys. Contains first hand accounts of the time of Restoration, the Plague, and the Great Fire.

primary sources from the era encompassing the political, religious, and social tumult of the English Civil War. With a focus on Britain in the seventeenth century and covering topics such as astrology, scurrilous pamphlet wars, witch-hunts and trials, and the execution of King Charles I.