The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of seventeenth-century Britons to the core.
The social world; the political world; the Scottish ascension, 1603-1618; the Duke of clubs, 1618-1628; the reign of Charles I, 1629-1637; rebellion and civil war, 1637-1649; civil war and revolution, 1645-1649; saints and soldiers, 1649-1658; the restoration settlements, 1659-1667; for church and king, 1668-1685; a Protestant succession, 1685-1689; a European union, 1689-1702; Great Britain, 1702-1714.
