England Without a King 1649-60 Lancaster Pamphlets Series

Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the Protectorate, and finally offers some guidelines to the tangled period between Cromwell's death and the Restoration.

Chapter 1 Stages on the road to a scaffold; Chapter 2 England’s new masters; Chapter 3 The defeat of radical hopes; Chapter 4 The army against the Rump; Chapter 5 Barebone’s Parliament; Chapter 6 The Protectorate established; Chapter 7 Cromwell and the nation; Chapter 8 A new constitution; Chapter 9 Richard Cromwell’s Protectorate; Chapter 10 The restored Commonwealth and its collapse;

Austin Woolrych