This book brings together eight of the most influential recent articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum.

• Brings together seminal articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum.
• Illuminates the personality of Cromwell and his achievements.
• Includes treatments of Ireland and Scotland alongside discussion of England.
• Editorial material introduces students to the historiographical issues.

David L. Smith is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has won the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize and Cambridge University’s Thirlwall Prize for Historical Research. He is the author of eight previous books on various aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history including Oliver Cromwell (1991), A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603–1707 (Blackwell, 1998), and The Stuart Parliaments, 1603–-1689 (1999).