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This study reassesses the policies of the founder of the Tudor
dynasty and shows how Henry worked within existing traditions
rather than breaking with the past. Every facet of the reign is
considered including the nature of government - both at central and
local level, financial policy, relations with the Church, foreign
policy, economic affairs and concludes by assessing Henry as a 'new
monarch'.
This study reassesses the policies of the founder of the Tudor
dynasty and shows how Henry worked within existing traditions
rather than breaking with the past. Every facet of the reign is
considered including the nature of government - both at central and
local level, financial policy, relations with the Church, foreign
policy, economic affairs and concludes by assessing Henry as a 'new
monarch'.
The comprehensive history of parliament, The House of Commons
1604-1629, was published in 2010. A monumental series, it provides
biographical and constituency studies covering the period. This
widely praised, groundbreaking introductory survey, previously only
available as part of the six-volume work, is now published as a
separate volume. The first ever account of the early
seventeenth-century House of Commons as an institution, it shows
how there was a crisis of legislation in the 1620s and how the
committee of the whole House transformed the way the House
operated. Covering a period of intense historiographical interest
and debate, it draws on the most comprehensive treatment of
politics, elections and parliament in the period ever assembled,
the result of research in over 170 archives.
King James VI and I and his English Parliaments is a posthumously
published work by Conrad Russell, the foremost historian of his
generation working on early Stuart parliaments, and is based on the
Trevelyan lectures which he delivered at the University of
Cambridge. It provides a chronological narrative of the early
English Parliaments of James VI and I, covering in detail the four
sessions of the 1604-1610 Parliament and the Addled Parliament of
1614, with a final chapter looking towards the parliaments of the
1620s. The narrative demonstrates that two problems in particular
dominated these sessions: the financial problems of the Crown, and
the pursuit of a formal Union between England and Scotland. These
were a continuous source of division and disagreement, and neither
was satisfactorily resolved. It also highlights important
subsidiary issues, notably the clashes between James and his judges
over the status of the Common Law and the relatively muted tensions
over religion. Detailed consideration is given throughout to the
character and style of James' kingship. This book can be read
alongside the same author's Parliaments and English Politics,
1621-1629 (Oxford, 1979) and The Fall of the British Monarchies,
1637-1642 (Oxford, 1992) to provide the first continuous narrative
of parliamentary proceedings from the accession of James to the
outbreak of Civil War since the massive work of S. R Gardiner.
Drawing on the much wider range of sources available to modern
historians, in particular the full range of parliamentary diaries,
it offers the most up-to-date analysis we have of conflict between
Crown and Parliament during a turbulent phase of British History.
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