TIM THORNTON is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of and a Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author, amongst other works, of Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560 (2000), Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (2006) and The Channel Islands, 1370-1640 (2012), all published by Boydell and Brewer.

Professor Thornton has discovered rare and unpublished archives, some privately held, and drawn them together in a magisterial work. This is a textbook and a sourcebook. It should be on every university reading list.

• War, Privilege and the Norman Connection, 1370-1435Military Defeat and Civil Conflict, 1435-1485Centralisation and its Limits under Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1547Political and Religious Strife, 1547-1569War and the Development of Autonomy, 1570-1604The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605-1640Conclusion

TIM THORNTON is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of and a Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author, amongst other works, of Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560 (2000), Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (2006) and The Channel Islands, 1370-1640 (2012), all published by Boydell and Brewer.

Professor Thornton has discovered rare and unpublished archives, some privately held, and drawn them together in a magisterial work. This is a textbook and a sourcebook. It should be on every university reading list.

• War, Privilege and the Norman Connection, 1370-1435Military Defeat and Civil Conflict, 1435-1485Centralisation and its Limits under Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1547Political and Religious Strife, 1547-1569War and the Development of Autonomy, 1570-1604The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605-1640Conclusion

TIM THORNTON is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of and a Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author, amongst other works, of Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560 (2000), Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (2006) and The Channel Islands, 1370-1640 (2012), all published by Boydell and Brewer.

Professor Thornton has discovered rare and unpublished archives, some privately held, and drawn them together in a magisterial work. This is a textbook and a sourcebook. It should be on every university reading list.

• War, Privilege and the Norman Connection, 1370-1435Military Defeat and Civil Conflict, 1435-1485Centralisation and its Limits under Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1547Political and Religious Strife, 1547-1569War and the Development of Autonomy, 1570-1604The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605-1640Conclusion