'The festschrift for Austin Woolrych is an exemplar of the genre; an increasingly rare case of one which gives readers a real sense of what the recipient is like and has achieved, and unites a set of good essays which are actually related to her or his own work.' History Today
'The volume is equally strong on both the 1640s and 1650s and embraces political history, military history, and the history of ideas … it pulls together an impressive range of work by younger scholars many of whom were completing, or had just completed, their doctoral theses at the time of writing. In quite a few cases, these papers were the forerunners for major monographs that have subsequently appeared, and this gives the volume considerable value as an overview of recent research in the field.' Historical Journal