Dr David Scott

Current Research

Research and Publications

Dr David Scott is editor of the House of Lords 1640-1660 section at the History of Parliament and a senior research fellow of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham.

He has researched and written extensively on the political and religious history of Stuart Britain, and his books include a study of the British civil wars of the seventeenth century, Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49 (Palgrave, 2004), and Leviathan: the Rise of Britain as a World Power (HarperCollins, 2013), which covers the 300 years from the accession of the Tudors in 1485 to the loss of the American colonies in the 1780s.