Keith Thomas | The New York Review of Books

A ‘Puritan Jihadi’

Oliver Cromwell’s cruelty and fervent, born-again religiosity were extreme, even by the standards of the age.

The Making of Oliver Cromwell

by Ronald Hutton

June 23, 2022 issue

Richard III: ‘Subtle, False and Treacherous’

Richard III: The Self-Made King

by Michael Hicks

October 22, 2020 issue

The Power Broker

Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

January 17, 2019 issue

A Cavalier Collection

Charles I: King and Collector

an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 27–April 15, 2018

The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

by Leanda de Lisle

June 28, 2018 issue

Will They Really Leave, and How?

October 27, 2016 issue

Was There Always an England?

The English and Their History

by Robert Tombs

May 12, 2016 issue

The Threat to the Editorial Institute

March 10, 2016 issue

The Greening Genius of Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne: A Life

by Reid Barbour

In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Thomas Browne

edited by Kevin Killeen

Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall

by Sir Thomas Browne, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff

October 22, 2015 issue

The Great Fight Over the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters

by Anthony Pagden

Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

by Paul Kléber Monod

April 3, 2014 issue

The Empires of Elliott

History in the Making

by J.H. Elliott

February 21, 2013 issue

The Truth About Oliver Cromwell

God’s Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

by Blair Worden

November 8, 2012 issue

Fighting over History

What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

by Anthony Grafton

December 3, 2009 issue

A Highly Paradoxical Historian

Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson

edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne

by Hugh Trevor-Roper

April 12, 2007 issue

Letter

Robert Middleton

Was He Swiss?

June 14, 2007 issue

Letter

David Leverenz

Hatred in the Common Room

May 31, 2007 issue

Speak of the Devil

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

by Malcolm Gaskill

Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

by James Sharpe

April 27, 2006 issue

Antipodean Historians

October 20, 2005 issue

Politics: Looking for Liberty

Visions of Politics

by Quentin Skinner

Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage

edited by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

by Kari Palonen

May 26, 2005 issue

Letter

J.G.A. Pocock

Antipodean Historians

October 20, 2005 issue

When the Lid Came off England

Britain in Revolution, 1625–1660

by Austin Woolrych

May 27, 2004 issue

Heroes of History

Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation

by Anthony Grafton

March 13, 2003 issue

A Vanished World

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

by Eamon Duffy

November 7, 2002 issue

‘A Modern Socrates’

Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century

by Peter N. Miller

October 4, 2001 issue