The English Civil War is one of the most hotly contested areas of English history and John Miller is one of the experts on the period. Amid dramatic accounts of the key battles and confrontations, Miller explores what triggered the initial conflict between crown and parliament.

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This atlas consists of over 50 maps illustrating all the major, and many of the minor, campaigns and battles of the English Civil War. It provides an introductory history to the turbulent period.

Mia Morgan, in the middle of her life, is a woman under siege. By the difficult relationship with her blind and aging father; memories of her late lover, John, thirty years her senior; and a dark family secret that still threatens to surface. She is also accused of living in the past. Alone in the London flat she once shared with John, her days are spent researching the life of a dead woman. This woman is Lady Brilliana Harley, who during the English...

1648: civil war is devastating England. The privileged world Katherine Ferrars knows is crumbling under Cromwell's army and, as an orphaned heiress, she has no choice but to do her duty and marry for the sake of family. But as her marriage turns into a prison and her fortune is decimated by the war, she becomes increasingly desperate. So when she meets the enigmatic Ralph Chaplin, she seizes the chance he offers. Their plan is daring and brutal, but...

Ely, 1643. England is convulsed by Civil War, setting King against Parliament and neighbour against neighbour. As the turmoil reaches her family home in Ely, 19-year-old Bridget Cromwell finds herself at the heart of the conflict. With her father's star on the rise as a cavalry commander for the rebellious Parliament, Bridget has her own ambitions for a life beyond marriage and motherhood. And as fractures appear in her own family with the wilful,...

The origins of the Civil War and course of the campaigns are here comprehensively but succintly described by the late Maurice Ashley, a leading authority on 17th century England. Both maps and contemporary sources illustrate the text.

This is an evaluation of Cromwell's 1649 campaign in Ireland. Thousands of defenceless men, women and children are alleged to have lost their lives as a result of the scorched earth policy of Oliver Cromwell, yet there is no solid evidence.

Everybody knows that Oliver Cromwell gave King Charles I the chop and clobbered the Cavaliers with his Roundheads, but in this book readers will discover all the facts that they didn't know, such as how Oliver cancelled Christmas and banned swearing, and that he was actually hanged and beheaded - after he had already died!

A biography of Jane Whorwood, secret agent for the King during the English Civil War.