David L. Smith 
Cromwell and the Interregnum [PDF ebook] 
The Essential Readings

Acknowledgements.
Editor’s Introduction.
1. Oliver Cromwell, the Regicide and the Sons of Zeruiah (John
Morrill, University of Cambridge and Philip Baker, Associate
Editor, The New Dictionary of National Biography).
2. Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achan (Blair Worden,
University of Sussex).
3. The Cromwellian Protectorate: A Military Dictatorship?
(Austin Woolrych, University of Lancaster).
4. ‘The Single Person’s Confidants and Dependents’? Oliver
Cromwell and his Protectoral Councilors (Peter Gaunt, University
College, Chester).
5. Oliver Cromwell and the Localities: The Problem of Consent
(Anthony Fletcher).
6. Cromwell’s Religion (Colin Davis, University of East
Anglia).
7. Oliver Cromwell, the First Protectorate Parliament and
Religious Reform (David L. Smith, University of Cambridge).
8. Cromwell, Scotland and Ireland (David Stevenson, University
of St. Andrews).
Timeline.
Index.

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).