England's Fortress

Dr Andrew Hopper is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, having previously taught History in the Universities of York, East Anglia and Birmingham. His doctoral research at York examined parliamentarian allegiance in Yorkshire during the civil wars. From this he has developed a series of articles in journals such as History, Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies and Social History, along with the books ’Black Tom’: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (2007), and Papers of the Hothams, Governors of Hull during the Civil Wars (2011). His latest work examines the themes of honour and treachery, in ’Turncoats and Renegadoes’: Changing Sides in the English Civil Wars (2012). Dr Philip Major is Associate Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Ashgate, 2013). He has edited a collection of essays on Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1685 (Ashgate, 2010), and on Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage (Ashgate, 2013). He has written articles on seventeenth-century literature for a variety of peer-review journals, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Review of English Studies, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, and The Seventeenth Century, and also has chapters in a number of edited collections.

'This book does not intend to be a pure military history - as well as looking at Fairfax the soldier and the statesman, equal attention is given to Fairfax the husband, the horseman, and the scholar. This is a meticulously researched collection of essays ... extremely enlightening - not least on how Fairfax has been portrayed in modern literature and film ...' Military History Magazine ’This is not pure military history, for as well as looking at Fairfax the soldier and statesman, the book equally considers Fairfax the husband, scholar and horseman. This is a meticulously researched collection of essays... extremely enlightening...’ Casemate 'All in all, 'An Appleton Psalter', like several of the other essays in this timely and stimulating collection, does much to persuade the reader that Fairfax - a man who was widely praised by contemporaries for his modesty, his humility and his lack of rancour - was indeed an individual who possessed many great virtues: virtues which remain admirable in the present age, just as they were in his own.' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal

• Introduction; I: Fairfax: Soldier and Statesman; 1: ‘In So Shifting a Scene': Thomas Fairfax as Lord of the Isle of Man, 1651-60; 2: Sir Thomas Fairfax and Siege Warfare during the English Civil Wars 1; 3: Naseby: Landscape of a Battle; 4: Remembering (and Forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields; 5: Images of Fairfax in Modern Literature and Film; II: Fairfax: Husband, Horseman and Scholar; 6: Anne and Thomas Fairfax, and the Vere Connection; 7: ‘O how I love these Solitudes': Thomas Fairfax and the Poetics of Retirement; 8: ‘The Genius of the house': Andrew Marvell's Private Lord Fairfax; 9: An Appleton Psalter: The Shared Devotions of Thomas Fairfax and Andrew Marvell; 10: Gentlemen's Recreation and Georgic Improvement: Lord Fairfax on Horse Breeding