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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of maps | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Monarchy and Government in Britain, 1603-1637 | |
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| Dynastic issues | |
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| British union | |
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| Foreign policy | |
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| The court | |
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| Parliaments | |
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| Finance | |
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| Local government | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Churches and Peoples of the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1641 | |
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| James VI and I and religion in the three kingdoms | |
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| Catholic subjects and the papal Antichrist | |
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| Enhanced conformity 1625-1637 | |
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| Episcopacy exalted | |
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| The Covenant | |
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| Figures listed in this chapter | |
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| The Rule of Saints and Soldiers: The Wars of Religion in Britain and Ireland 1638-1660 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The British billiard ball 1637-1643 | |
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| Paper war(s) | |
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| Constitutional war(s) | |
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| Military war(s) | |
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| The progress of the war(s) | |
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| Regicide and the foundation of the English and Irish Commonwealth | |
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| Republican responses to regicide | |
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| Revolutionary consequences | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Restoration or Initiation? | |
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| Three kingdoms, one king | |
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| Forgiveness and vengeance | |
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| Personalities, policies, and principles | |
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| The churches | |
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| Parliaments | |
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| Localities: ideals and ideas | |
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| A Catholic king | |
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| Kingship: representations and realities | |
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| The Economic and Social Context | |
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| Population and subsistence | |
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| Social structure | |
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| The urban sector | |
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| Trade and manufacture | |
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| Changing elite lifestyles | |
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| Social problems and disorder | |
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| The quality of life | |
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| 'What ish my Nation?': The Cultures of the Seventeenth-Century British Isles | |
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| The early seventeenth century: the cultures of the Stuart archipelago | |
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| War and its aftermath: culture and identity 1642-1660 | |
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| Restoration: nation, culture, and identity | |
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| Conclusions: reputations and reception | |
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| List of authors and others mentioned in this chapter | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Historiographical warfare: England | |
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| Religion, and the Scots and the Irish | |
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| The lull before the next storm? | |
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| Was there any fun in the seventeenth century? | |
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| The seventeenth century explained? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Maps | |
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| Index | |