Short Parliament Diary of Sir Thomas Aston 1640

by Judith D. Maltby, J.D. Maltby

xvi 189p hardback, gilt & black title panel to spine, index, fresh and clean copy, this copy published in the year 1988 in the series entitled Camden Fourth Series Vol 35

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Mehmet · Rating 3 out of 5]

The review score shouldn't be taken as an indictment of historical value, but as a measure of reading enjoyment. In any case, it is very good for what it is, a transcription by a backbencher and later royalist hero of the speeches and manoeuvres made by MPs in the disaster that was the short parliament. It is one of those texts for which every historian of the period should be glad as it provides a technical backbone for a wealth of analysis, yet it is also one that I was stupid to just read through, for which I take the blame. It is obtuse at parts, but that can very often be clarified by secondary research elsewhere. All in all, a very happy editorial endeavour.

[scarlettraces]

so not much has changed then.