Blair Worden

History's Heroic Age

Blair Worden revisits Hugh Trevor-Roper’s essay on the radicalism of the Puritan gentry, a typically stylish and ambitious contribution to a fierce controversy.

Published March 13 2012

The Execution of Charles I: The King is Dead, Long Live the Crown

On the anniversary of the regicide, Blair Worden considers the enduring and sometimes surprising consequences of the execution of King Charles I.

Published January 13 2009

A Freeborn: Politics and the Nation in 17th-century England

David UnderdownLaw Making and Society in Late Elizabethan EnglandDavid DeadPower in Tudor EnglandDavid LoadesThe Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political CultureMalcolm Smuts

Published January 1 1998

The Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700; Revolution and Restoration England in the 1650s; & The Nature of the English Revolution

Three new works on the period of the English Revolution

Published August 31 1994

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.