"A Warts-and-All Picture of a Man with the Weaknesses of Any Other"

"And, as would be seen within 30 years of the Stuarts returning to the throne, they were just in- capable of behaving themselves. Perhaps the finest legacy of the regicides and the Protectorate was that the Glorious Revolution proceeded without a King being decapitated (even though James II and VII probably asked for it far more than his errant father had), and—the minor irritations of 1715 and 1745 notwithstanding—at last settled the question of the English Reformation that had started in 1534."

Simon Heffer at The Critic reviews Paul Lay's Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate.

"The First Shots in the American War of Independence Were Fired in England"

"The interesting thing about these colonists was their radicalism, their revolutionary fervor. They were Puritans—but they were more than that. They were merchant-venturers, looking for new markets and business opportunities. They were more than that, too. They were idealists, who went to extraordinary lengths and traveled extraordinary distances to fight for the chance to build a fairer society."

Adrian Tinniswood in The New York Times discusses American colonists who fought in the English Civil War.