John Morrill

Biographic Data

ID3675839
NAMEJohn Morrill
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEMorrill
SIGNATUREMORRILL J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 1: October 1626 to January 1649

    Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Barclay et al.BOOKLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: Volume 1

    Andrew Barclay, John Morrill et al.BOOKLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Sir Samuel Luke

    Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Barclay et al.CHAPTERLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 2: 1 February 1649 to 12 December 1653

    Oliver Cromwell, Jason Peacey et al.BOOKLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 3: 16 December 1653 to 2 September 1658

    Oliver Cromwell, John Morrill et al.BOOKLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Sir Samuel Luke

    Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Barclay et al.CHAPTERLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Sir Samuel Luke

    Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Barclay et al.CHAPTERLetters, Writings, and Speeches…2022

  • Monarchy Transformed: Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe

    Open AccessHamish Scott, James Collins et al.BOOKMonarchy Transformed2017

    This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the conse…

  • Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter

    Michael J Braddick, Michael Braddick et al.BOOKPopular Culture and Political…2017

  • The English Revolution as a civil war: The English Revolution as a civil war

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEHistorical Research2017

    The 2017 Historical Research/Wiley lecture was designed to raise some general issues about the nature of ‘civil wars’ as a prelude to a conference that looked at many examples across time and space. It takes the events of the sixteen-forties across Britain and Ireland and notes that very few participants accepted (at least publicly) that they were engaged in one or more civil wars. There was widespread seventeenth-century understanding that the t…

  • Revel, Riot and Rebellion Revisited

    John MorrillARTICLECultural and Social History2015

    This essay revisits the fourth of David Underdown’s seven books and places it into its historical and historiographical context. It seeks to demonstrate how the book represents a major turning point in his intellectual development and offers, with the wisdom of hindsight, a highly positive account of its ambition and achievement. It then seeks to explain why the books received a much less enthusiastic set of reviews than earlier and later books. …

  • Richard Bancroft and Anti‐Puritanism (2012)

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEHistory2015

    This essay begins by exploring the difficult personal circumstances in which Pat Collinson completed his final book – suffering from cancer, far from Cambridge and with his private library largely dispersed. It examines how this return to the sources he had pondered for half a century allowed him to make one last effort to get inside the minds of the godly ministers and laymen whose struggle for the soul of the Church of England he had so long ad…

  • The Civil Wars after 1660: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England , by Matthew Neufeld

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEJournal of History2014

    The Civil Wars after 1660: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England, by Matthew Neufeld. Woodbridge and Rochester, The Boydell Press, 2013. xiv, 284 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This is an enterprising addition to a burgeoning field. There has been, at least since the 1970s, an ever-growing study in how the English civil wars were remembered and debated in the half century after they ended (with the Restoration of the monarchy in May 1660) and indeed …

  • Theatre of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England, by Chris R. Kyle

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Theatre of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England, by Chris R. Kyle Get access Theatre of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England, by Chris R. Kyle (Stanford, CA: Stanford U.P., 2012; pp. 276. £53.50). John Morrill John Morrill Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 535, Dece…

  • Cromwell, Parliament, Ireland and a Commonwealth in Crisis: 1652 Revisited

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEParliamentary History2011Cited by: 1

    This article investigates an episode in 1652 which is usually ignored and has never been explained. On 19 May 1652 the Rump Parliament, without forewarning, voted not to renew the office of lord lieutenant and thereby stripped the lord general, Oliver Cromwell of one of his highest and most significant offices. The article seeks to penetrate the wall of silence in the press and in the parliamentary records to see what lay behind this decision, wh…

  • Three kingdoms and one commonwealth?

    John MorrillCHAPTERUniting the Kingdom?2010

  • England and the 1641 Irish Rebellion

    John MorrillARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

    This short book packs quite a punch. Once we exclude the bibliography and index, there are only 164 pages of text, twenty of which are taken up with an unnecessarily general discussion of the ‘New British History’. But the rest is at once pithy and resonant. It has two stories to tell, both of which are striking and startling. The first, based mainly but not exclusively on a very close and attentive reading of some of the thousands of depositions…

  • The Puritan Revolution

    Open AccessJohn MorrillCHAPTERThe Cambridge Companion to…2008

    The crisis that overwhelmed Britain and Ireland in the mid seventeenth century has no agreed title: the English Revolution, the Great Rebellion, the Civil Wars and Interregnum, England's (or Britain's) War(s) of Religion, the War(s) of the Three Kingdoms, the Puritan Revolution. The last had a limited shelf life - coined by S.R. Gardiner in 18761 and used in the title of his influential collection of Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolu…

  • Oliver Cromwell

    John MorrillBOOKOliver Cromwell (Very Interesting…2007

    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The Very Interesting People series …

  • The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland

    Open AccessUte Lotz-Heumann, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin et al.BOOKOrigins of Sectarianism in Early…2005

    Ireland is riven by sectarian hatred. This simple assumption provides a powerful explanation for the bitterness and violence which has so dominated Irish history. Most notably, the troubles in Northern Ireland have provided fertile ground for scholars from all disciplines to argue about and explore ways in which religious division fueled the descent into hostility and disorder. In much of this literature, however, sectarianism is seen as, somehow…

  • Rewriting Cromwell: A Case of Deafening Silences

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEJournal of History2003Cited by: 3

    This essay revisits the life of Oliver Cromwell and offers new perspectives on his emergence from provincial obscurity up to and beyond his 40th birthday to become one of Britain's most brilliant generals, a king-killer, and one of the most controversial heads of state. It looks at the silence of the records and seeks to interrogate that silence: the silence that lies behind texts that are so meretricious to have lain unused; texts that used code…

  • Christopher A. Whatley, Bought and Sold for English Gold: Explaining the Union of 1707

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLEScottish Economic & Social History2002

  • The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

    Open AccessJohn Morrill, Martin Dzelzainis et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to…2001

    This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment …

  • Shorter notice. Union, Revolution and Religion in 17-century Scotland. Stevenson

    John MorrillARTICLEThe English Historical Review1999

    Accepted

  • Daniel Goffman. 1998. Britons in the Ottoman Empire 1642-1660. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, pp. xvi + 310

    Open AccessJohn MorrillARTICLENew Perspectives on Turkey1999

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