BRENDAN BRADSHAW, a University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, has published extensively on Irish history and on British and European continental history, mainly of the sixteenth century.JOHN MORRILL, Reader in Early Modern History and Fellow and Vice Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, has published widely on British and Irish history, mainly of the seventeenth century. He and Breandan Bradshaw have taught a final-year course called 'The British Problem, 1534-1707' in Cambridge since 1988.

'...the essays in this volume...open up and develop their topics in stimulating and often original ways. They are held together by an impressive introduction from John Morrill, who provides a narrative framework to the whole.' - Henry Williams, Welsh History Review 'Much that is stimulatingly contentious but all is excellent. This work not merely reinterprets British history in terms of the past interactions between four nations, but could have a real impact on how we think of the present crises of British identity, Britain and Europe and relations between England, Ireland and Scotland.' - Professor Bernard Crick

• PrefaceThe British Problem 1534-1707; J.MorrillThe Tudor Reformation and Revolution in Wales and Ireland: the Origins of the British Problem; B.BradshawBritish Policies before the British State; H.MorganEngland's Defence and Ireland's Reform: The Dilemma of the Irish Viceroys, 1541-1641; C.BradyThe English Crown, the Principality of Wales and the Council in the Marches, 1534-1641; P.RobertsJames VI, James I and the Identity of Britain; J.Wormald. The Atlantic Archipelago and the War of the Three Kingdoms; J.G.A.PocockThe English Republic and the Meaning of Britain; D.HirstDivergence and Union: Scotland and England, 1660-1707; M.GoldieThe Communities of Ireland and the British State, 1660-1707; J.SmythFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.

BRENDAN BRADSHAW, a University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, has published extensively on Irish history and on British and European continental history, mainly of the sixteenth century.JOHN MORRILL, Reader in Early Modern History and Fellow and Vice Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, has published widely on British and Irish history, mainly of the seventeenth century. He and Breandan Bradshaw have taught a final-year course called 'The British Problem, 1534-1707' in Cambridge since 1988.

'...the essays in this volume...open up and develop their topics in stimulating and often original ways. They are held together by an impressive introduction from John Morrill, who provides a narrative framework to the whole.' - Henry Williams, Welsh History Review 'Much that is stimulatingly contentious but all is excellent. This work not merely reinterprets British history in terms of the past interactions between four nations, but could have a real impact on how we think of the present crises of British identity, Britain and Europe and relations between England, Ireland and Scotland.' - Professor Bernard Crick

• PrefaceThe British Problem 1534-1707; J.MorrillThe Tudor Reformation and Revolution in Wales and Ireland: the Origins of the British Problem; B.BradshawBritish Policies before the British State; H.MorganEngland's Defence and Ireland's Reform: The Dilemma of the Irish Viceroys, 1541-1641; C.BradyThe English Crown, the Principality of Wales and the Council in the Marches, 1534-1641; P.RobertsJames VI, James I and the Identity of Britain; J.Wormald. The Atlantic Archipelago and the War of the Three Kingdoms; J.G.A.PocockThe English Republic and the Meaning of Britain; D.HirstDivergence and Union: Scotland and England, 1660-1707; M.GoldieThe Communities of Ireland and the British State, 1660-1707; J.SmythFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.