- Britain in Revolution, Austin Woolrych (Superb ‘ bible’ of the English Revolution everything you wanted to know)
- Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax & the English revolution, Andrew Hopper (detailed life of Fairfaxes)
- The Blazing World, Jonathan Healey (excellent & engaging 17th century overview)
- Causes of the English Civil War, Conrad Russell (A master of the art)
- Charles I: The Personal Monarch, Charles Carlton (rather one-eyed. but interesting & fun anecdotes)
- Charles I: A Political Life, Richard Cust (also a very good coverage of his reign)
- Charles I, Mark Kishlansky (Revisionist, short and readable)
- Command of the Ocean, N A M Rodger (One of a series, THE place to go for naval history)
- Conflict in Early Stuart England, Edited by Cust and Hughes (monograph articles, good but turgid)
- Cromwell: Our Chief of men, Antonia Fraser (Favourable, big)
- Cromwell, Ronald Hutton (Early years – good but there’s a lot of it)
- Cromwell’s Legacy, edited Mills (very interesting articles)
- Debate on the English Revolution, R C Richardson
- Devil-Land, Clare Jackson (amusing view of 17th century from the outside from Ambassadors, not always well informed)
- English Civil Wars, Blair Worden (A classic, and short)
- English Civil War, Diane Purkiss (big, rather a gentry view than ordinary folk, but good for a different angle)
- The English Civil Wars: Conflict and Contests, Edited by john Adamson (bit of a whopper)
- The English Civil War at First Hand, Tristram Hunt (very good series of quotes, ,quite unique)
- The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the wars of the Three Kingdoms, Nick Lipscombe (Wonderful)
- Free-Born John, Pauline Gregg (long in the tooth, but the only biography I think)
- God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution, Christopher Hill (Classic, and favourable)
- God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland, Micheal O Siochru (Excellent, more balanced than the title suggests)
- Henry Vane, JH Adamson & H F Folland
- Killers of the King, Charles Spencer (Very engaging, a bit like a thriller really)
- Modern Ireland, R F Foster (A classic revisionist text, not beloved of nationalists)
- Montrose, C V Wedgewood (An old 50’s classic)
- The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, Ian Gentles (The bible for the subject of the revolutionary army)
- The Noble Revolt, John Adamson (Chunkster)
- The Origins of Empire, ed, Nicholas Canny (Excellent series on Empire, by various authors)
- Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, David Scott (really good British summary of how the three fitted together)
- Providence Lost, Paul Lay (Engaging book on the Republic)
- Rebellion: Britain’s first Stuart Kings, 1567-1642, Tim Harris
- The Restless Republic, Anna Keay
- Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637–1651, Laura Stewart
- Revolution and Counter Revolution, David Stevenson
- Safeguard of the Sea, N A M Rodger (as above)
- The Siege of Loyalty House, Jessie Childs (Very well written. personal stories of an iconic siege – mainly fro besieged view)
- The Scottish Revolution, David Stevenson (Definitive, good read)
- The Stuart Age, Wroughton (good reference for the biographies and timelines)
- The Trial of Charles I, C V Wedgewood (again a classic, old style, if not the most recent)
- The Tyrannicide Brief, Geoffrey Robertson (loved this book – the story of the lawyer John Cooke who prosecuted Charles)
- Union and Revolution, Laura Stewart (Overview, reasonably brief and thoughtful book)
- Why was Charles I executed? Clive Holmes
