Current Research

History of Parliament Research

I have researched and written the biographies of the MPs who sat for the counties of northern England and the north Midlands between 1640 and 1660.

Research and Publications

My research interests include Civil War Royalism, and English state-building in the mid-seventeenth century.  I have published a study of the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century:

- Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49 (Palgrave, 2004).