Geoffrey Parker

The Origins of the Dutch Revolt

Geoffrey Parker examines the reasons Philip II of Spain was drawn into a lengthy and bitter conflict with his Low Country provinces.

Published March 31 2005

What If... Philip II Had Gone to the Netherlands?

Geoffrey Parker considers the far-reaching consequences of a sudden change of plan by the king of Spain in 1567.

Published July 21 2004

War in the Middle Ages

War in the Middle Ages, by Philip Contamine. xvi + 387 pp. (Basil Black- well, £17.50).

Published April 30 1985

The Pacific since Magellan. Volume II: Monopolists and freebooters

by O. H. K. Spate

Published February 1 1985

Refighting the Thirty Years’ War

Geoffrey Parker travels to Germany to revisit the sites of the 17th-century conflict that saw the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburgs.

Published November 1 1984

Renaissance War Studies / The Pursuit of power, technology, armed force and society since AD1000

by J.R. Hale/ W.H. McNeill

Published August 31 1984

Reading History: The Thirty Years' War

Geoffrey Parker examines the historiography of the Thirty Years' War.

Published July 31 1982

The Dutch Declaration of Independence - July 26th, 1581

Geoffrey Parker looks at the moment, four hundred years ago this month, when the representatives of certain provinces of the Netherlands met together to depose their lawful sovereign Philip II of Spain.

Published June 30 1981

Postscript

Geoffrey Parker concludes our two-part feature on the European Witchcraze Revisited.

Published February 1 1981

The European Witchcraze Revisited

An introduction by Geoffrey Parker on the European Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Published November 1 1980

Crime and Control in Scotland 1500-1800

Scotland was a much more disciplined society in the years before the Industrial Revolution than has usually been supported, as Lenman and Parker, the authors of the first of these two articles on 'Crime in Britain 1500-1800' show.

Published January 1 1980