1. 罗马不列颠时期
在罗马征服之前
R. Bradley, Social Foundations of Prehistoric Britain (Harlow, 1984),该书的分析细致入微。
B. Cunliffe, Iron Age Communities in Britain (and edn. London, 1978),该书描述了罗马征服之前几个世纪的概况。
——Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (London, 1998),该书讲述了高卢和不列颠是如何成为古希腊和古罗马世界的一部分。
S. James, The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention? (London, 1999),该书的观点存在争议,但是十分重要。
通史读物
P. A. Clayton (ed.), A Companion to Roman Britain (Oxford, 1980),书中配备有极其精美的插图。
P. Dixon, Barbarian Europe (The Making of the Past) (Oxford, 1976),一部带有精美插图、内容绝佳的背景阅读材料,该书把罗马不列颠末期置于欧洲的背景之下。
S. Frere, Britannia, a History of Roman Britain (3rd edn. London, 1987),一部正史。
B. Jones and D. Mattingley, An Atlas of Roman Britain (Oxford, 1990).
M. Millett, The Romanization of Britain (Cambridge 1990),一部独特的考古读物。
Ordnance Survey, Map of Roman Britain (4th edn., Southampton, 1978), two sheets (scale: 625 000) and gazetteer.
Peter Salway, Roman Britain (Oxford History of England, vol. la) (Oxford, 1981),这是一部宏大的通史,包含了围绕重大主题的多篇文章。
——The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain (Oxford, 1993).
M. Todd, Roman Britain 55 BC-AD 400: the Province beyond Ocean (Fontana History of England) (London, 1981),该书具有洞察力。
R. J. A. Wilson, A Guide to the Roman Remains m Britain (3rd edn. London, 1988),把该书推荐给那些希望探访这一时期的物理遗迹的人。
特殊方面的作品
A. Birley, The People of Roman Britain (London, 1979),以罗马不列颠的知名人士为基础的启发性研究。
D. J. Breeze, Roman Scotland (London, 1996),对北部边疆的当代思考。
M. Henig, The Art of Roman Britain (London, 1995).
——Religion in Roman Britain (London, 1984).
P. A. Holder, The Roman Army in Britain (London, 1982),深受读者喜欢的第一部现代叙述。
R. Merrifield, The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic (London, 1987),该书对罗马不列颠时期的材料做出了的具有启发性的重新诠释。
A. L. F. Rivet and Colin Smith, The Place-Names of Roman Britain (London, 1979),一部主要参考书:地名词典,带有语言和地理分析。
C. Thomas, Christianity in Britain to AD 500 (London, 1981),该书重新审视历史,发人深省。
2. 盎格鲁-撒克逊时期
原始资料来源
Gildas, The Ruin of Britain and Other Documents, ed. and trans.M. Winterbottom (Chichester, 1978),有关盎格鲁-撒克逊人定居点的唯一当代资源。
The Goddoddin of Aneirin, ed. J. T. Koch (Cardiff, 1997),威尔士后期的文本,但包含了有关公元6、7世纪不列颠北部的资料来源。
Adomnan of Iona: life of St Columba, trans. R. Sharp(Harmondsworth, 1995).
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, trans. J. McClure and R. Collins (Oxford, 1994),公元8世纪初撰写的精彩生动的叙述,是有关盎格鲁-撒克逊早期历史的最重要的单一史料来源。
The Age of Bede, trans. J. F. (Revised edn., Harmondsworth, 1983),该书是有关公元7、8世纪英格兰及其宗教文化的其他资料来源。
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. G. N. Garmonsway (London, 1953);一部关于盎格鲁-撒克逊末期的白话编年史,对阿尔弗雷德政权以后的历史,该书提供了当代的评论。
Alfred the Great, trans. S. Keynes ad M. Lapidge (Harmondsworth, 1983),阿尔弗雷德的生平及相关资料。
The Earliest English Poems, trans. M. Alexander (2nd edn.,Harmondsworth, 1977),较为重要的盎格鲁-撒克逊诗歌的翻译。
Beowulf, trans. S. Heaney (London, 1999).
通史和政治主题
R. Abels, Alfred the Great (Harlow, 1998).
E. Barlow, Edward the Confessor (London, 1970).
J. Compbell (ed.), The Anglo-Saxons (Oxford, 1982),该书内容精彩,插图精美,是一本优秀的概论。
D. P. Kirby, The Earliest English Kings (London, 1991).
M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S Keynes, and D. Scragg, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 1999),该书是一本相当全面的参考文献。
H. R. Loyn, The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England 500-1087 (London, 1984).
P. Stafford, Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (London and New York, 1989).
F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (3rd edn. Oxford, 1971),该书是一本长篇正史,具有很高的价值。
B. Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1990).
教会
F. Barlow, The English Church 1000-1066 (2nd edn., London and New York, 1979).
J. Blair and R. Sharpe (eds.), Pastoral Care before the Parish (Leicester, 1992),该书记述了当地的教区组织以及教会与俗人之间的关系。
P. Hunter Blair, The world of Bede (London, 1970),该书介绍了8世纪诺森比亚的宗教与学术。
H. Mayr-Harting, The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1972),该书是有关皈依基督教的最佳通史。
R. Morris, Churches in the Landscape (London, 1989),早期教会的考古学和地理分布。
社会、经济与景观
S. Crawford, Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England (Stroud, 1999).
R. Faith, The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship (Leicester, 1997).
C. Fell, Women in Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1984).
M. Gelling, Signposts to the Past (London, 1978).
J. Haslam (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Towns in the Southern England (Chichester, 1984).
D. Hill, An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 1981).
D. Hinton, Archaeology, Economy and Society: England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century (London, 1990).
D. Hookw, The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1998).
G. Owen-Crocker, Dress in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester, 1986).
苏格兰和威尔士
B. E. Crawford, Scandinavian Scotland (Leicester, 1987).
W. Davies, Wales in the early Middle Ages (Leicester, 1982).
A. A. M. Duncan, Scotland: the making of the kingdom (Edinburgh, 1975).
K. Hughes, Celtic Britain in the Early Middle Ages (Wood bridge, 1980).
A. P. Smyth, Warlords and Holi Men: Scotland, AD 80-1100 (London, 1984).
考古和艺术
J. Backhouse, D. H. Turner, and L. Webster (eds.), The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art, 966-1066 (London, 1985).
R. Barley, England’s Earliest Sculptors (Toronto, 1996).
M. Carver, Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? (London, 1998).
E. Fernie, The Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons (London, 1983).
G. Henderson, From Durrow to Kells: The Insular Gospel-Books 650-800 (London, 1987).
M. Welch, Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1992).
D. M. Wilson (ed.), The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 1976),几位作者合力撰写的有关该时期的各种物理证据。
S. Youngs (ed.), ‘The Work of Angels’: Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th Century AD (London, 1989).
3. 中世纪早期
F. Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 (4th edn. London, 1988),一部优秀的概述。
R. Bartlett, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225 (Oxford, 2000).
D. Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 (Oxford, 2003),一部很好的概述。
M. T. Clanchy, England and its Rulers 1066-1272 (Glasgow, 1983),该书结合了政治和文化历史,观点发人深省,新加的结尾是关于爱德华一世的介绍。
R. R. Davies, Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland,Scotland and Wales 1100-1300 (Cambridge, 1990).
——The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 (Oxford, 2000).
R. Frame, The Political Development of the British Isles: The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries(Oxford, 2001).
Michael Prestwich, Plantagenet England 1225-1360 (Oxford, 2005).
一些重大主题的研究
M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (London, 1979; 2nd edn. 1993),该书分析了读写能力和识字意识的发展过程,引人入胜。
J. Gillingham, The English in the Twelfth Century: Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values (Woodbridge, 2000).
B. Golding, Conquest and Colonisation: The Normans in Britain 1066-1100 (London, 1994).
J. A. Green, The Aristocracy of Norman England (Cambridge, 1997).
J. C. Holt, Magna Carta (Cambridge, 1965; 2nd edn., 1992),对于了解
《大宪章》的政治和社会背景,该书必不可少。
J. Hudson, The Formation of the English Common Law (London, 1996).
R. Liddiard (ed.), Anglo-Norman Castles (Woodbridge, 2003).
N. A. M. Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain: 660-1649 (London, 1997).
M. Strickland, War and Chivalry: The Conduct and Perception of War in England and Normandy, 1066-1217 (Cambridge, 1996).
H. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066-c. 1220 (Oxford, 2003).
王室传记
F. Barlow, William Rufus (London, 1983),该书不仅记述了国王的生平,还深入研究了威廉二世那个时代。
D. Bates, William the Conqueror (London, 1989).
M. Chibnall, The Empress Matilda (Oxford, 1991).
J. Gilingham, Richard I (London, 1999).
J. A. Green, Henry I (Cambridge, 2006).
M. Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998).
D. Mathew, King Stephen (London, 2002).
R. Oram, David I: The King who made Scotland (Stroud, 2004).
M. Prestwich, Edward I (London, 1988).
W. L. Warren, Henry II (London, 1973),该书篇幅较长,但值得一读。
——King John (Harmondsworth, 1961),该书试图纠正13世纪编年史学家对约翰王的负面定论。
教会和宗教
F. Barlow, The English Church 1066-1154 (London, 1979),该书生动地分析了那个激进、动**的年代。
D. Knowles, The Monastic Order in England 940-1216 (and edn. Cambridge, 1963),一位学者僧侣记述了僧侣生活的历史。
——The Religious Orders in England, vol. i (Cambridge, 1962),该书是了解男修道士诞生的重要文献。
苏格兰
G. W. S. Barrow, Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000-1316 (London, 1981),一篇简短但宝贵的概述。
A. A. M. Duncan, Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom (Edinburgh, 1975).
——The Kingship of the Scots, 842-1292: Succession and Independence (Edinburgh, 2003).
威尔士
R. R. Davies, Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales 1063-1415 (Oxford, 1987),该书深入研究了那个时代威尔士的经济、社会和政治。
爱尔兰
S. Duffy, Ireland in the Middle Ages (Dublin, 1997).
R. Frame, Colonial Ireland 1169-1369 (Dublin, 1981),该书是一部令人敬佩的概述。
经济
J. L. Bolton, The Medieval English Economy 1150-1500 (London, 1980),该书是一部最有用的一般性介绍。
R. H. Britnell, The Commercialisation of English Society, 1100-1500 (Cambridge, 1993).
——Britain and Ireland 1050-1530: Economy and Society (Oxford, 2004),一项非比寻常的广泛比较研究。
C. Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520 (New Haven and London, 2002).
D. M. Palliser (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, i: 600-1340 (Cambridge, 2000).
S. Reynolds, An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns (2nd edn. Oxford, 1982),思想家对英国城市历史的介绍。
语言和读写能力
M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (London, 1979),该书分析了读写能力和识字意识的发展过程,引人入胜。
艺术和建筑
P. Binski, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England (New Haven and London, 2004).
E. Fernie, The Architecture of Norman England (Oxford, 2000).
T. Tatton-Brown, Great Cathedrals of Britain (London, 1989).
G. Zarnecki, J. Holt, and T. Holland (eds.), English Romanesque Art 1066-1200 (London, 1984).
4. 中世纪后期
通史读物
A. D. M. Barrell, Medieval Scotland (Cambridge, 2000),内容清晰易懂。
A. Cosgrove (ed.), A New History of Ireland, ii: Medieval Ireland, 1169-1534 (Oxford, 1987),多位知名学者合力撰写各个章节。
——Late Medieval Ireland, 1370-1541 (Dublin, 1981),文章言简意赅。
R. R. Davies, Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales, 1063-1415 (Oxford, 1987),一份重要研究。
R. Frame, The Political Development of the British Isles, 1100-1400 (Oxford, 1990).
——Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369 (Dublin, 1981),令人钦佩的概述。
A. Grant, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland, 1306-1469 (London, 1984),内容全面,观点新颖。
R. Griffiths (ed.), Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Oxford, 2003),比较而言,这是一份专家级的概述。
R. Horrox (ed.), Fifteenth-Century Attitudes (Cambridge, 1984).
A. J. Pollard, Late Medieval England, 1399-1509 (Harlow, 2000),有关这个时期的最新概述。
M. Prestwich, Plantagenet England, 1225-1360 (Oxford, 2005), and G. L. Harris, Shaping the Nation, 1360-1461 (Oxford, 2005), volumes in The Oxford History of England.
G. William, Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales, c.1415-1642 (Oxford, 1987),又一部重大作品。
有关特定主题的研究
C. Barron, London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People, 1200-1500 (Oxford, 2004).
J. Bellamy, Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1973).
A. L. Brown, The Governance of late Medieval England, 1272-1461 (London, 1989).
C. Carpenter, The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509 (Cambridge, 1997).
A. Curry (ed.), The Hundred Years War (London, 1993).
R. G. Davies and J. H. Denton (eds.), The English Parliament in the Middle Ages (Manchester, 1981),文章具有高度概括性。
A. Dunn, The Great Rising of 1381 (Stroud, 2002).
A. E. Goodman, The Wars of the Roses: The Soldiers’ Experience (Stroud, 2005).
M. Hicks, English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (London,2002).
A. J. Macdonald, Border Bloodshed: Scotland and England at War, 1369-1403 (East Linton, 2000).
A. J. Pollard, The Wars of the Roses (London, 1995),一系列史学论文。
S. Raban, England under Edward I and Edward II, 1259-1327 (Oxford, 2000).
C. D. Ross, The Wars of the Roses (London, 1976),内容充满睿智、论证有理有据。
S. L. Waugh, England in the Reign of Edward III (Cambridge, 1991).
王室传记
C. T. Allmand, Henry V (2nd edn., London, 1997).
S. Boardman, The Early Stewart Kings (Edinburgh, 1996).
M. H. Brown, James I (Edinburgh, 1994).
D. Green, Edward the Black Prince: Power in the Medieval Europe (Harlow, 2006).
R. A. Griffiths, The Reign of King Henry VI (London, 1981; 2nd edn., Stroud, 1998),该书不仅仅是一部国王传记。
R. M. Haines, King Edward II (Montreal, 2003).
M. Hicks, Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III (Stroud, 2006).
N. M. Ormrod, James III (Edinburgh, 1982).
C. McGladdery, James II (Edinburgh, 1990).
W. M. Ormrod, The Reign of Edward III (London, 1990).
M. Prestwich, Edward I (2nd edn., 1997).
C. D. Ross, Edward IV (London, 1974; 2nd edn., London, 1997).
——Richard III (London, 1981; 2nd edn., London, 1999).
N. Saul, Richard II (London, 1997).
其他传记性研究
H. Castor, Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses (London, 2004).
R. R. Davies, The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dr (Oxford, 1995),新一代的重大研究。
A. E. Goodman, John of Gaunt (London, 1992),冈特的约翰是欧洲舞台上的王家子弟。
R. A. Griffiths and R. S. Thomas, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty (Gloucester, 1985),都铎王朝的前史。
G. L. Harriss (ed.), Henry V: The Practice of Kingship (Oxford, 1985).
——Cardinal Beaufort (Oxford, 1988),政治和战争中的教会王子。
M. Hicks, Warwick the Kingmaker (Oxford, 1998),对一位神秘贵族的一次有价值的重新评价。
A. J. Pollard, Richard III and the Princes in the Tower (Stroud, 1997),带有大量插图。
J. Watts, Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship (Cambridge, 1996).
教会和宗教
A. E. Goodman, Margery Kempe and her World (Harlow, 2006),一部著名的神秘主义作品。
R. Rex, The Lollards (Basingstoke, 2002).
R. N. Swanson, Church and Society in Late Medieval England (London, 1989).
G. Williams, The Welsh Church from Conquest to Reformation (2nd edn., Cardiff, T976),一份入木三分的研究。
经济和社会
R. H. Britnell, The Commercialisation of English Society, 1100-1500 (Cambridge, 1993).
J. Brown (ed.), Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century (London, 1977),书中包含多篇有关核心主题的文章。
C. Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520 (London, 2002).
——An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford, 2005).
——Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages Social Change in England c.1200-1520 (Cambridge, 1989).
C. Given-Wilson, The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages (London, 1987).
R. Horrox, The Black Death (Manchester, 1994).
——and W M. Ormrod (eds.), A Social History of England, 1200-1500 (Cambridge, 2006).
M. Keen, Origins of the English Gentleman (Stroud, 2002).
E. Miller and J. Hatcher, Medieval England: Rural Society and Economic Change, 1086-1348 (London, 1978).
——Medieval England: Towns, Commerce and Crafts, 1086-1348 (London, 1995).
N. Orme, Medieval Children (London, 2001).
D. M. Palliser (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, i: c.600-c.1540 (Cambridge, 2000),该书由多位知名权威合力撰写。
C. Platt, King Death (London, 1996),该书评估了瘟疫对英格兰的影响。
R. Radulescu and A. Truelove (eds.), Gentry Culture in Later Medieval England (Manchester, 2005).
S. Reynolds, An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns (2nd edn., Oxford, 1982),该书是对英国城市历史的开创性导论。
P. R. Schofield, Peasants and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500 (Basingstoke, 2003)
语言、文学和艺术
J. Alexander and P. Binski (eds.), Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 (London, 1987).
R. Marks and P. Williamson (eds.), Gothic: Art for England, 1400-1547 (London, 2003).
S. Medcalf (ed.), The Context of English Literature: The Later Middle Ages (London, 1981),该书是融合文化和社会历史的罕见尝试。
V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne (eds.), English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1983),有关各种主题的专家论文。
D. Wallace (ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge, 1999),有些章节写的是凯尔特语。
5. 都铎王朝
通史作品
S. G. Elis, Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule (London, 1998),有关爱尔兰和文化问题的最佳概述。
G. R. Elton, Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558 (London, 1977),该作品最生动地体现了作者埃尔顿的观点。
J. Guy, Tudor England (Oxford, 1990),一部全面的正史。
C. Haigh, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford, 1993),这是有关宗教改革的权威作品。
P. Williams, The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Oxford, 1995),有关都铎王朝后半期的最新完整概述。
J. Wormald, Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland, 1470-1625 (London, 1981),该书仍然是有关16世纪苏格兰的最佳导论。
K. Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early-Modern Britain, 1470-1750 (London, 2002),一部关于经济和社会状况的指南,内容令人着迷,值得一读。
传记
S. Alford, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I (London, 2008),这是伊丽莎白一世的重臣威廉·塞西尔的传记,向世人展示了他在爱德华六世和玛丽统治时期的惊人影响力,在50多年里,他一直是英国政坛的权力经纪人。
J. Guy, ‘My Heart is My Own’: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (London, 2004),该作品聚焦伯利勋爵威廉·塞西尔、伊丽莎白和玛丽之间的跨境诡计和政治三角关系。
C. Haigh, Elizabeth I (2nd edn., Harlow, 1998),该作品篇幅不长,却是对伊丽莎白一世的最佳修正主义诠释。
E. W. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy (Oxford, 2004),该书不仅记录了安妮的生平,也揭示了亨利八世的思维方式。
D. M. Loades, Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England (London, 2006),作者利用信件和原始文献,讲述了玛丽女王的个人生活和政治生涯。
D. MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (London, 1996),一部杰出传记,尤其是对爱德华六世的统治非常有见识。
J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (London, 1968),一部有关亨利八世的经典传记,尽管新的研究取得了进步,但该传记仍然生动有趣。
A. Somerset, Elizabeth I (London, 1997),伊丽莎白一世最好的商业传记,准确、翔实,可读性强。
有关特殊主题的研究
S. Anglo, Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford, 1969),该书全面介绍了都铎时代早期的节日和娱乐活动。
P. Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (London, 1967),该书深入研究宗教和解之后新教所处的困境。
S. Doran, Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (London, 1996),关于伊丽莎白求爱和婚姻手腕的最佳分析。
E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (London, 1992),该书对宗教改革前夕的天主教礼拜传统进行了全面且令人回味的叙述,并以怀疑的态度重新评价了与罗马决裂后人们的反应。
C. Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (Philadelphia, 1994),该作品从女权主义的角度重新评价伊丽莎白一世,探究性别在政治中的作用。
J. Loach and R. Littler (eds.), The Mid-Tudor Polity (London, 1980),该作品有效矫正了有关16世纪50年代的陈腐论调。
D. R. Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (London, 2004),该书如实记述了宫廷政治和派系斗争,又不失戏剧性。
L. Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy (Oxford, 1965),仍然是有关都铎上流社会最重要的(即使有争议)研究。
K. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London, 1971),对这一时期思想状况的经典、高度原创性研究。
网站
Institute of Historical Research, University of London:〈www.hr.sas.ac.uk〉 Author:〈www.tudors.org〉
6. 斯图亚特王朝
政治和宪法的历史
G. E. Aylmer, The Levellers in the English Revolution (London, 1975),该文献是简短的论文,也是重要教材。
B. Coward, The Stuart Age (London, 1980),最佳导论。
G. Donaldson, Scotland: James V to James VII (Edinburgh, 1965).
C. H. Firth, Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans (Oxford, 1900).
F. M. G. Higham, Catholic and Reformed: A Study of the Church of England 1559-1662 (London, 1962),该书研究宗教思想。
C Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (Harmondsworth, 1973),该书重现了17世纪50年代宗教激进分子的世界。
D Hirst, Authority and Confiict 1603-58 (London, 1985).
S. J. Houston, James I (London, 1973).
J. R. Jones, The Revolution of 1688 in England (London, 1972).
——Country and Court 1658-1714 (London, 1979).
J. P. Kenyon, The Stuarts (London, 1958).
——The Popish Plot (London, 1972).
M. MacCurtain, Tudor and Stuart Ireland (Dublin, 1972),一篇简短的分析。
Miller, James II: A Study in Kingship (London, 1978).
T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, and F J. Byrne (eds.), A New History of Ireland, iii: 1534-1691 (Oxford, 1976),长篇叙述。
J. S. Morrill, The Revolt of the Provinces (London, 1976).
R. Ollard, The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II (London, 1979).
C. Russell, The Crisis of Parliaments 1509-1660 (Oxford, 1971).
A. Woolrych, Battles of the English Civil War (London, 1961).
A. B. Worden (ed.), Stuart England (London, 1986).
社会、经济和文化
J. Bossy, The English Catholic Community 1570-1850 (London, 1975).
C. Clay, Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700 (Cambridge, 1984).
D. C. Coleman, The Economy of England 1450-1750 (Oxford, 1977),文笔干净利落。
C. Hill, Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England (London, 1964).
J. Hook, The Baroque Age (London, 1976).
P. Laslett, The World We Have Lost (London, 1971).
T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 (London, 1969).
M. Spufford, Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readers in 17th Century (London, 1981).
L. Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy (abridged version, Oxford, 1967).
R. Strong, Van Dyck: Charles I on Horseback (London, 1972).
K. V. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London, 1971).
C. Webster, The Great Instauration (London, 1970).
K. Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680 (London, 1982),该书重现了17世纪乡村的精神世界。
文献和当代教材
J. Aubrey, Brief Lives (many editions but e.g. Harmondsworth, 1962).
J. Evelyn, Diary, various editions and extracts, principally the edition by E. S. de Beer, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1955).
R. Gough, The History of Middle (Harmondsworth, 1981),由一位当地农民撰写的有关17世纪教区生活的精彩回忆。
J. P. Kenyon, The Stuart Constitution (Cambridge, 1962),该书适合作为教材以及有趣的评论。
R. C. Latham (ed.), The Illustrated Pepys (London, 1978),该书是精彩的日记摘录。
S. Pepys, Diary, various editions, but all previous ones superseded by that of R. C. Latham and W. Matthews, II vols. (London, 1970-1983).
J. Thirsk and J. P. Cooper, Seventeenth-Century Economic Documents (Oxford, 1972).
参考书目
M E. Keeler, Bibliography of British History: Stuart Period, 1603-1714 (Oxford, 1970), 1960年前的出版物的综合指南。
J. S. Morrill, Critical Bibliographies in Modern History: Seventeenth Century Britain (Folkestone, 1980),该作品是对前作Keeler的补充,并提供了对所讨论作品的评论。
除了上面列出的有助于撰写本章内容的作品外,以下是值得推荐的最新作品。
政治和宪法的历史
P. Croft, King James (London, 2003).
K. Fincham, The Early Stuart Church, 1603-1642 (London, 1993).
T. Harris, Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 1660-1685 (London, 2005).
C. Holmes, Why was Charles I Executed? (London, 2006).
J. Morrill, The Nature of the English Revolution (London, 1994).
——Oliver Cromwell (Oxford, 2007).
C. Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War (Oxford, 1992).
社会、经济和文化历史
M. J. Braddick and J. Walter, Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2001).
J. Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2003).
K. Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (New Haven, 2000).
文献和当代教材
D. Wootton, Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England (Harmondsworth, 1986).
参考书目
The Royal Historical Society Bibliography Online-free to all at 〈www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl〉.
7. 18世纪
这份清单列出了50本书,这些书籍不仅提供了有关主要主题的权威介绍,而且还使读者能够领略到有关该时期最佳的现代研究。
通史读物
L. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (New Haven, 1992).
S. J. Connolly, Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland (London, 1992).
T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (London, 1999).
R F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London, 1988).
G. H. Jenkins, The Foundations of Modern Wales, 1642-1780 (Oxford, 1987).
P. Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783, New Oxford History of England (Oxford, 1989).
R. B. McDowell, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801 (Oxford, 1979).
F. O’ Gorman, The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 (London, 1997).
W. Prest, Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815 (Oxford, 1998).
T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830 (London, 1970).
政治和政府
J. Black, A System of Ambition: British Foreign Policy, 1660-1593 (London, 1991).
J. Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 (London, 1989).
J. Cannon, Parliamentary Reform 1540-1832 (Cambridge, 1982).
I. Christie, Crisis of Empire (London, 1976).
H. T. Dickinson, Liberty and Property: Political ideology in Eighteenth-century Britain (London, 1977).
J. Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, 3 vols. (London, 1969-96).
E. Harris, A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (Oxford, 1991).
J. R. Jones, Britain and the World 1649-1815 (London, 1980).
P. Langford, Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689-1798 (Oxford, 1991).
L. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (Oxford, 1992).
F. O’ Gorman, Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System in Hanoverian England, 1534-1832 (Oxford, 1989).
N. Rogers, Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt (Oxford, 1989).
W. A. Speck, Reluctant Revolutionaries (London, 1989).
P. D. G. Thomas, Revolution in America: Britain and the Colonies, 1763-1776 (Oxford, 1992).
——Lord North (Oxford, 1976).
——John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty (Oxford, 1996).
社会和经济
J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Oxford, 1986).
P. Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Eighteenth-century Provincial Town, 1660-1570 (London, 1989).
J. Cannon, Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-century England (Cambridge, 1984).
P. Corfield, Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850 (London, 1995).
V. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English Public, 1570-1868(Oxford, 1994).
M. Daunton, Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850 (Oxford, 1995).
D. Hay and N. Rogers, Eighteenth-century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (Oxford, 1997).
P. Hudson, The Industrial Revolution (London, 1992).
R. Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1963).
H. D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (Oxford, 1989).
R. Sweet, The English Town, 1680-1540: Government, Society and Culture (Harlow, 1999).
E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (London, 1991).
宗教、思想与文化
J. Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: England in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1997).
A. C. Chitnis, The Scottish Enlightenment: A Social History (Edinburgh, 1976).
The English Satirical Print 1600-1823, 7 vols. (Cambridge, 1986).
W. Gibson, Church, State and Society, 1760-1850 (London, 1994).
D. Hempton, Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (Cambridge, 1996).
R. W. Malcolmson, Popular Recreations in English Society, 1500-1850 (Cambridge, 1973).
P. J. Marshall, The Great Map of Mankind; British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (London, 1982).
E. G. Rupp, Religion in England, 1688-1591 (Oxford, 1986).
L. Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 (London, 1977).
K. Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (London, 1983).
J. Uglow, Hogarth: A Life and a World (London, 1997).
M. Watts, The Dissenters: From the Reformation to the French Revolution (London, 1978).
A. Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (New Haven, 1998).
M. Matts, The Dissenters: From the Reformation to the French Revolution (London, 1978).
8. 革命与法治
通史读物
C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts, 1830-1900 (London, 1975),该书包含有关经济、选举和各个部门的数据。
E. Halevy, England in 1815 (Paris, 1913, London, 1924),这是一本出版较早但仍然具有权威性的书。
J. F. C. Harrison, Early Victorian England, 1835-1850 (London, 1973),这是一部有关抗议和激进运动的力作。
C. S. Kitson Clark, The Making of Victorian England (London, 1962),作者的观点与保守党人G. M. Young接近,但他对中产阶级改革运动的性质异常敏感。
J. S. Watson, The Reign of George III 1560-1815 (Oxford, 1960).
E. L. Woodward, The Age of Reform, 1815-70 (Oxford, 1960).
G. M. Young, Victorian England: The Portrait of an Age (Oxford, 1936),该书是对维多利亚时代一次重要的重新评价,让19世纪的英格兰历史免遭利顿·斯特拉奇(Lytton Strachey)等人的歪曲。
经济
J. H. Clapham, An Economic History of Modern Britain (Cambridge, 1933),克拉彭(Clapham)的一些结论,尤其是关于生活水平的结论,必须加以修改,但它们仍传达了大量详细信息。该书最好用作马提亚斯 (Peter Mathias)作品的补充。
F. Crouzet, The Victorian Economy (London, 1982),该书是法国主要权威机构对英国经济最新研究的总结。
C. Hadfield, British Canals (London, 1950),该书是他的伟大区域历史系列的导论。
P. Mantoux, The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century (1911; London, 1961),这是一位法国历史学家的开创性研究,至今仍具有洞察力。
P. Mathias, The First Industrial Nation (2nd rev. edn., London, 1983),算得上是最新的总结。
R. J. Morris and J. Langton (eds.), Atlas of Industrializing Britain (London, 1986).
M. Robbins, The Railway Age (London, 1962),有关铁路和社会的专题研究。
L. T. C. Rolt, Victorian Engineering (Harmondsworth, 1970),该书聚焦机械工程的发展。
政治和政府
A. Briggs (ed), Chartist Studies (London, 1974),该书突出宪章运动的地域多样性。
M. Brock, The Great Reform Bill (London, 1973),关于《1832年改革法案》。
A. V. Dicey, The Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1906),该书的文笔简洁明了,影响深远。
S. E. Finer, Edwin Chadwick (London, 1952),该书深入研究了这位边沁主义改革家埃德温·查德威克。
E. J. Hobsbawm and G. Rude, Captain Swing (London, 1968),该书讲述的是1831年的劳工起义。
N. Mccord, The Anti-corn-law League (London, 1975).
O. MacDonagh, A Pattern of Government Growth (London, 1961),该书以研究客船监管条例为例,探讨行政管理的发展。
J. Ridley, Palmerston (London, 1970).
D. Thompson, The Chartists (Aldershot, 1986).
B. and S. Webb, The History of Local English Government (London, 1908-1929).
社会
O. Chadwick, The Victorian Church (3rd edn., London, 1971),尽管书名只表明讲述一个教会,而实际内容却涉及所有教会。
C. Emsley, British Society and the French Wars, 1593-1815 (London, 1979),该书的撰写动用了尚未公开的档案材料。
L. and J. C. Fawtier Stone, An Open Elite England 1540-1880 (Oxford, 1984).
J. Foster, The Class Struggle in the Industrial Revolution (London, 1974),该书从马克思主义的角度,对南希尔德、北安普敦和奥尔德姆的工业和政治进行了深入研究。
J. F. C. Harrison, Rohert Owen and the Owenites (London, 1969).
H. Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society, 1580-1880 (London, 1969).
R. Porter, English Society in the 18th Century (Harmondsworth, 1982).
D. Read, The English Provinces (London, 1964),该书向读者呈现了工业革命和反谷物法同盟的社会背景。
B. Simon, Studies in the History of Education, 1780-1870 (London, 1960),该书极力反对墨守成规,大力提倡教育创新。
L. Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage, 1500-1800 (London, 1977),该书阐述了家庭结构、道德规范和情感的变化。
E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London, 1963),一部充满争议的杰作。
——Whigs and Hunters (London, 1975),该书讲述18世纪的法律与社会。
W. R. Ward, Religious Society in England, 1590-1950 (London, 1972).
苏格兰、爱尔兰和威尔士
E. D. Evans, A History of Wales, 1600-1815 (Cardiff, 1976).
G. Oluathaigh, Ireland before the Famine, 1798-1848 (Dublin, 1972).
T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People (London, 1969).
——A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 (London, 1986).
文化
F. D. Kingender, Art and the Industrial Revolution (London, 1972),马克思主义对艺术和工业的解释,从乐观到怀疑,大约1750至1850年间。
R. Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950 (London, 1958),社会关键状况的研究:包括伯克、科贝特、凯雷、拉斯金的研究。
9. 自由时代
通史读物
A. Briggs, The Age of Improvement (London, 1959),对1867年之前的政治和社会状况的绝佳概述。
L. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation (London, 1992).
R. C. K. Ensor, England, 1870-1914 (Oxford, 1936, often reprinted),该书仍然具有物质价值和分析价值。
A. Grant and K. Stringer (eds.), Uniting the Kingdom (London, 1995),这些短文生动记述了英伦三岛的分分合合。
E. Halevy, History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century, vols. v (Imperialism and the Rise Labour 1895-1905) and vi (The Rule of Democracy, 1905-1914) (rev. edn., London, 1951-1952),一部基于当代出版材料的经典作品,至今仍然拥有自己的地位。
K. T. Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886 (Oxford, 1998).
K. Robbins, Great Britain: Identities Institutions and the Idea of Britishness (London, 1998),该书对英国意识形态和文化发展及衰落进行了论述,充满睿智,论据充分。
G. R. Searle, A New England: Peace and War 1886-1918 (Oxford, 2004).
经济史
M. Daunton, Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1851-1951 (Oxford, 2007).
R. Floud and P. Johnson (eds.), The Cambridge Economic and Social History of Britain, ii: Economic Maturity, 1860-1939 (Cambridge, 2003).
P. Mathias, The First Industrial Nation (and rev. edn., London, 1983),内容简洁明了。
社会生活
The Batsford series, Victorian and Edwardian Life in photographs (many vols. by city and county),内容极佳,是重要的资料来源。
D. W. Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain (London, 1989).
Florence, Lady Bell, At the Works (London, 1911 edn.),该书对米德尔斯堡的社会生活进行生动、敏锐的分析。
A. Briggs, Victorian Cities (London, 1963), and Victorian People (2nd edn., London 1965), stimulating essays.
O. Chadwick, The Victorian Church, 2 vol. (3rd edn., London, 1971),一篇强有力的概论,对英国国教非常有利。
H. J. Dyos and M. Wolff (eds.), The Victorian City, 2 vols. (London, 1973),带有极其全面的插图。
V. A. C. Gatrell, B. Lenman, and G. Parker, Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500 (London, 1980).
G. Mingay (ed.), The Victorian Countryside, 2 vols. (London, 1981),当代作品。
R. Roberts, The Classic Slum (London, 1971),在索尔福德度过的童年。
F. Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (Oxford, 1945, often reprinted),牛津郡的乡村正在衰落。
F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1990).
政治生活
R. Blake, Disraeli (London, 1966),迪斯雷利生平的权威介绍。
——The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher (new edn. London, 1981),关于保守党的兴衰。
A. Briggs (ed.), William Morris: Selected Writings and Designs (London,1962),一本艺术和手工艺运动的导论。
H. A. Clegg, A. Fox, and A. F. Thompson, A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, vol. i. 1889-1910 (Oxford, 1964),该书是一本理解复杂的政治和劳资关系不可或缺的文献。
E. H. H. Green, The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914 (London, 1998).
J. Harris, Unemployment and Politics: A Study in English Social Policy 1886-1914 (Oxford, 1972; paperback 1984),这是一篇有关一个福利国家早期的有力的评论文章。
R. McKibbin, The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-1924 (Oxford, 1974, paperback 1983),有关工党早期的权威作品。
H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone, 1809-1874 (Oxford, 1986).
K. O. Morgan, The Age of Lloyd George (3rd edn. London, 1978),继格莱斯顿之后有关自由主义的最佳导论。
H. Pelling, Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain (London, 1968),该书对这一时期进行了具有挑战性的重新诠释。
M. Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 (London, 1982),对最新的研究进行了睿智的梳理。
A. Rosen, Rise Up Women! (London, 1974),该书审视了妇女参政运动,运动带来了不利后果。
S. A. Van Wingerden, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928 (London, 1999),该书以同情的口吻对整个妇女参政运动进行了叙述。
J. Vincent, The Formation of the Liberal Party, 1857-1868 (London, 1966),分析精辟,有时甚至过于矛盾。
苏格兰、爱尔兰和威尔士
T. Devine, The Scottish Nation (London, 1999).
R. F. Foster, The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (Oxford, 2000), chapters 4-6.
C. Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism (new edn., London, 1994),内容生动,思想新颖。
W. Knox, Industrial Nation (Edinburgh, 1999).
D. Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales, i: Industrial Society (Cardiff, 1998), ii: Imagining the Nation (Cardiff, 2000).
F. S. L. Lyons, Ireland since the Famine (London, 1971),从盎格鲁-爱尔兰观点来看,该书具有权威性。
K. O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1800-1980 (Oxford and Cardiff, 1981),从温和的民族主义角度出发,该书表达了对威尔士人的同情。
W. E. Vaughan (ed.), Ireland under the Union, 1800-1870, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1989, 1996),该书对充满创伤的时代进行了宏大、全面和批判性的记述。
帝国主义
D. K. Fieldhouse, The Colonial Empires (London, 1966),一本很好的概论。
J. Keay, The Honourable Company (London, 1991).
P. Kennedy, The Realities behind Diplomacy (London, 1981),该书有助于读者认识外交与权力的关系。
A. Porter, The Oxford History of the British Empire, ii: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1999).
B. Porter, The Absent-minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford 2004).
R. Robinson and J. Gallagher, Africa and the Victorians (London, 1961),一篇大胆的论文,论证了战略意义大于经济动机。
A. J. P. Taylor, The Troublemakers (London, 1956; reprinted 1969),该书发自肺腑地记述了一个失败的传统。
——The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (Oxford, 1954, often reprinted),该书对德国争取权力所造成的后果进行了有力分析。
A. P. Thornton, The Imperial Idea and its Enemies (London, 1959),该书优雅且睿智地记述了围绕帝国的争论。
10. 20世纪
通史读物
J. M. Brown and W. R. Louis (eds.), The Twentieth Century: The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol iv (Oxford, 1999)
P. Clark, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990 (London, 1996)
R. Colls, Identity of England (Oxford, 2002)
T. O. Lloyd, Empire to Welfare State: English History, 1906-1992 (4th edn., Oxford, 1993),一本出色的通史读物。
D. Marquand, Britain since 1918 (London, 2008).
K. O. Morgan, Britain since 1945: The People’s Peace (rev. edn, Oxford, 2001).
C. L. Mowat, Britain between the Wars (London, 1955),一本涉及社会和经济主题的好书。
N. Tiratsoo (ed.), From Blitz to Blair (London, 1998).
社会和经济
A. Cairncross, Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy, 1945-1951 (London, 1985),对艾德礼执政时期的精细研究。
J. R. C. Dow, The Management of the British Economy, 1945-1960(Cambridge, 1964).
R. Floud and D. McCloskey (eds.), The Economic History of Britain since 1700, vol, ii (Cambridge, 1994).
A. H. Halsey (ed.), Trends in British Society since 1900 (London, 1971),内容详尽且注重事实。
D. Kynaston, Austerity Britain 1945-51 (London, 2007).
J. Lewis, Women in Britain since 1945 (London, 1992)
R. Lowe, The Welfare State since 1945 (London, 1993).
R. Mckibbin, Culture and Classes: England 1918-1951 (Oxford, 1998).
G. C. Peden, British Economic and Social Policy: Lloyd George to Margaret Thatcher (Deddington, 1985).
H. Pelling, A History of British Trade Unionism (2nd edn., London, 1971).
H. Perkin, The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880 (London, 1989).
E. H. Phelps Brown, The Growth of British Industrial Relations, 1906-1914 (London, 1963).
S. Pollard, The Development of the British Economy, 1914-1980 (3rd edn., London, 1983).
J. Stevenson, British Society, 1914-1945 (London, 1984).