लेखक: David Cressy

The story of the reign of Charles I – through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeche …

The story of the reign of Charles I – through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeche …

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and -more recently-Travellers. Who are this marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are tales of their distant origins on the I …

England on Edge deals with the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the Church of England, and the accompanying cultural panic that led to civil war. Focused on the years 16 …

Dangerous Talk examines the ‘lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding’ speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conve …

Dangerous Talk examines the ‘lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding’ speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conve …

This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an ‘inestimable treasure.’National security depended on control of this o …

This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an ‘inestimable treasure.’National security depended on control of this o …

Religion and Society in Early Modern England is a thorough sourcebook covering interplay between religion, politics, society, and popular culture in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It covers the crucia …

Religion and Society in Early Modern England is a thorough sourcebook covering interplay between religion, politics, society, and popular culture in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It covers the crucia …

400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a singl …

A collection that celebrates the research of Margaret Spufford, a ‘game-changing’ historian who shifted the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the ‘other 98%’ in l …

England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England’s relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and …

England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England’s relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and …

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, th …

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, th …

From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life-cycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the protestantism of the refo …

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and–more recently–Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on th …

The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the …

The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the …